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Originally Posted by RobinMask
Fair enough, and whilst everyone's discussing it . . . what are the rules there like on the matter? I mean in the US/UK teachers risk jail-time, and even if the student is legally an adult they nearly always lose their job, is that the same in Japan? I mean I can understand it being legal for a teacher to marry/date an ex-student, but if he/she was dating a current student what would the situation be then? Also - if it's legal - isn't there a worry about bias as far as grading and things go?
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With the girl I knew, it was a requirement that it be kept a serious secret. If there was any kind of special treatment shown to her in school, I have no doubt that the teacher would have been facing some serious consequences. Friends didn`t even have confirmation of the relationship until just before graduation. (Of course her closest friends knew, and some others strongly suspected.)
I don`t think that he taught any of her classes in her senior year when they were actually involved in a relationship. I don`t know if that is coincidence or arranged.
I don`t really know the law, but I do not believe there is a law against it once the student is of age. There are school policies, of course. The school I went to was private, so had it`s own rules. I imagine parents knowing and permitting also made a difference in the school response.
There WAS a teacher who got in trouble and was fired for flirting with the students... And there were rumors that he kept trying to drive them home. Not a serious relationship type of guy. So I would guess it came down to an individual basis.
The age difference between the teacher and student was not all that large. At graduation she was 18 and he was 24, having started teaching straight out of university.