teachers falling for students

Teacher/student relationships are not acceptable. Teachers are role models, and in a position of authority. Students can flirt all they want. It's up to the teacher to not respond inappropriately.

Dreamsaving nailed it right off the bat. The teacher should be fired and listed as a predator. Thats called statuatory rape.

it is totally unacceptable for someone in authority to have an affair with a student. It is wrong and outside the realm of teacher. I think it should be against all laws and just like dr or lawyer excepting themselves from doing work that way

If I were the headmaster of the school I would fire the teacher and report them to the licensing board. I assume that you are speaking of students under the age of 18? If this were a college situation it may be different, although I think that the teacher should transfer the student to another class if there is any sort of involvement at all. In the case of teachers and students in high school, any type of personal relationship is inappropriate and unacceptable. The teacher is not there to befriend students or to become romantically involved. Teachers should be professional enough and astute enough to pick up on the danger signs that a student has a "crush" on him or her and resolve the situation before it goes any further. And teachers should be trusted to be mature enough to know that their role is to educate students only; any other involvement, of any type, is inappropriate and should result in punishment. These relationships that we hear about in the media didn't progress from student-teacher to intimate relationships overnight. They start with "innocent" meetings for coffee or a meal... This is the type of behavior that is wrong from teachers. Maybe teachers should have to attend periodic mandatory trainings about appropriate relationships with students and skills trainings to recognize signs of student infatuation and how to defuse the situation.