I’ve said this before on here and don’t want to be “that” poster who always wheels out a story, but I am unshockable about these things at this point: I had a sexual relationship with one of my teachers. I was over the age of consent but under 18. It was before, during and after the 2003 law change. We were together for almost 6 years (in secret for the most part). When I was 22 we broke up and the school found out (not from me- he confided in a colleague. He had left me and said there was no one else but there was, she was 17 and in the sixth form. He thought this colleague was trustworthy.... idiot). The school persuaded him to resign but gave him a decent reference. He is still teaching to this day. God knows how many more girls he’s slept with since (I’m heading towards 40! He’s had almost 20 more years to pull this shit).
Sadly even in this day and age, even in the midst of #MeToo and everyone apparently agreeing this stuff is wrong, there are a lot of people, schools and unions included, who think that teenage girls are “asking for it” when it comes to them being groomed by their (adult and male) teachers. In fact, I was told by a police officer when I finally reported him (aged almost 30 by then, and having had a lot of therapy) that “you were a pretty young thing and it sounds like you fancied him. What was he meant to do?”