A child's feelings on the matter do not give them some extra-judicial right to consent to sex. They're still a child regardless of backwards places deciding that it's perfectly fine to allow adults to take advantage of children.
My point was, I really doubt teacher was taking advantage of her and she was most likely the one to initiate things. Still further clarification from manga needed.
The parts of the brain that are relevant to decision making don't reach actual maturity until around age 25, so 16 is not borderline adulthood and thus open for whatever adult feels like creeping on children. I don't know what nostalgia or image you have of sixteen year olds, but they do not have the world figured out and are thus capable of engaging in complex and potentially abusive relationships with adults.
In my country you are a legal adult and can do w/e you want when you are 18 so yes, 16 for me is borderline a adult. Also again, I said I'm assuming it was mutual and there was no "whatever adults feels like creeping on children".
I'm not ok with putting all the blame on teacher, when she clearly wanted to fuck teacher. If we will learn later the situation was more dubious then I'll take my words back, but for now I don't see a good reason to remove all responsibility from her actions.
you're either underage, extremely out of touch with anybody under the age of 21, or a creep. it doesn't matter what the student did, the teacher agreed to have sex with her and that is a crime because 16 year olds are not mature enough to enter sexual/romantic relationships with older people. i'm a senior in high school and when i interact with sophomores at my school i notice that the maturity gap between us is huge. they're only 2 years younger than me but teenagers grow a hell of a lot in those two years. i guarantee you, you put a 16 year old and a 20 year old in the same room and the 16 year old is basically a child compared to the 20 year old. that's why it's statutory rape. there is no "responsibility for her actions" she was taken advantage of by someone with LEAGUES more maturity and experience than her. even if she was seducing the teacher, the teacher is an adult who should have the moral standing to know that this is a child and she should not agree to have sex with her.
so she was involved with a teacher and the STUDENT gets a year suspension? like in what universe is statutory rape something punish the victim for, especially with an entire year suspension. i'm sure the teacher got off worse but why would you even bother punishing the student?
Nowhere in that section does she say she was suspended, or that the teacher wasn't punished. She just says that she spent time out of school, which makes sense. If it gets out that a teacher and a student are sleeping together, it's likely that all kinds of factors would point towards the student taking time off and perhaps switching schools, for her own benefit, regardless of any punishment the teacher receives. Going back to school where something like that is widely known would be very unpleasant for her and even her family, especially in a society as scandal-averse as Japan.
the page said "took a year suspension from school." it was pointed out that the japanese word connotes a voluntary leave from school so then it made more sense to me, but "suspension", at least how i've always heard it used, means a punishment.
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