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And it’s wrong. I’m not saying it’d be different if she was a dude
Lena Stewart, a 27-year-old agricultural science and woodworking teacher at Nixa High School in Nixa, Missouri has been charged for carving out an intimate relationship with a 16-year-old male student.

LMAO, what kind of news site is this?  The student paper for the school where it happened? >

I mean, that’s just top notch journalism. >

That’s just plane gross is what it is. >

Nah, I’d say it’s cutting edge. >

The writing could use a little polish >

You’re just saying that because they go against the grain. >

I think your delivery was a little wooden. >

Nah, it was pretty smooth. >

I'm on board with it. >

Adults can't have "relationships" with children.
The term you're looking for is statutory rape. >

Legally they can’t call it that until they’ve been proven guilty, or else the newspaper could be sued for libel after a not guilty verdict. So given the nature of their relationship and depth of it is not legally clear or proven, it must be called a relationship. 
Where people get confused in these situations is that this is not a romantic definition of relationship, it’s a legal one: the regular interaction of one person with another. You have a relationship with your barber, or your lawn guy, or the security guard at work. >

“Charged with statutory rape” isn’t opening you up for libel, saying “she is a rapist” would be >

It’s phrased the same way for male violators too. It’s an AP standards thing and seems to come up every single time there’s a news story about this.