That's ridiculous because these were consenting adults. So the teacher wants to have a sexual relationship with a student who's 30 and your gonna dictate it's against the law?
What is happening here is some of you SEEM to be equating LAW with Morality. It's just not equivalent. You can not legislate morality because you are denying FREE WILL and inalienable rights. I totally think what she did is reprehensible, however that's why the American Idea works because it doesn't allow one belief system to dictate morality or law. In other words I can believe burning her at the stake is morally just because my belief system encourages me too, but the LAW has precedence over my moral code. Thank God! Sometimes these law are just wrong. 2-20 years is the wrong punishment for this lapse in judgement.
Don't worry, I won't be coming to Texas, I wouldn't want to get thrown in jail for throwing an apple core out the window!
If you are a teacher and they are still in school, it is hands off and no exceptions. What they get in if they can’t do that, too bad.
Regardless of the fact that these students were 18 or older, she was their TEACHER, being paid by the TAXPAYERS, and working at a PUBLIC school to educate them, not recruit them for sex.