Two teacher stories appeared in two countries this week, one in Montana where the male teacher got a month for sleeping with a 14 year old student, and another in Scotland where the female teacher was put on the register and cautioned under Scottish law for sleeping with a 16 year old. Those stories are here and here respectively from the Daily Mail. The American case resulted in the student’s suicide so the prosecutors are appealing for a tougher sentence.
Since the fallout from abusing a teacher-pupil relationship is totally random and extreme, from nothing in Scotland to suicide in America, it remains to be seen whether tougher sanctions would be applied to Scottish teachers should the country vote for independence in September 2014 from that new school year onwards.