Doesn't matter that the kid was 17, what you gonna do? Say no to your teacher?
Pervasive gender bias not withstanding, unironically yes. It's trivially easy to ignore your teachers in highschool, I saw kids ignoring legitimate uses of authority constantly for no reason at all other than they could and the teachers now are even bigger pushovers than back then. The incredibly favorable process of reporting inappropriate conduct because of the hair trigger they have for avoiding scandals like this will outweigh even the pro-female biases in education.
Coercion isn't the big concern in that age range, it's manipulation.
If a teacher is willing to break the law to sleep with a kid, they probably aren't willing to follow procedure and other rules in terms of not punishing that kid in every way possible for rejecting them. Double that for women, because they aren't used to rejection period.
Something regular teachers who get bullied by students wouldn't be willing to do. Like planting things in your desk or knocking your grades on a test down.
Even if they aren't going to do that, a teenager is the exact type of inexperienced and naive type to believe such a thing would happen and factor it into their answer. The same way that even a normal dude asking out his secretary might not have any ill intents but because he could punish her for it, the law often considers it abuse of power because she had reason to think he might if she said no.
"Power imbalances," as gay as feminists have made them sound, aren't usually about the explicit words and actions. But about the theoretical possibilities and if the "victim" has good reason to believe them possible.
Pervasive gender bias not withstanding, unironically yes. It's trivially easy to ignore your teachers in highschool, I saw kids ignoring legitimate uses of authority constantly for no reason at all other than they could and the teachers now are even bigger pushovers than back then. The incredibly favorable process of reporting inappropriate conduct because of the hair trigger they have for avoiding scandals like this will outweigh even the pro-female biases in education.
Coercion isn't the big concern in that age range, it's manipulation.
If a teacher is willing to break the law to sleep with a kid, they probably aren't willing to follow procedure and other rules in terms of not punishing that kid in every way possible for rejecting them. Double that for women, because they aren't used to rejection period.
Something regular teachers who get bullied by students wouldn't be willing to do. Like planting things in your desk or knocking your grades on a test down.
Even if they aren't going to do that, a teenager is the exact type of inexperienced and naive type to believe such a thing would happen and factor it into their answer. The same way that even a normal dude asking out his secretary might not have any ill intents but because he could punish her for it, the law often considers it abuse of power because she had reason to think he might if she said no.
"Power imbalances," as gay as feminists have made them sound, aren't usually about the explicit words and actions. But about the theoretical possibilities and if the "victim" has good reason to believe them possible.