[Cecil Terwilliger]

Before this turns into a total witch hunt I think we need to keep in mind that the news article linked is really light on details.

It goes without saying that he has a moral and legal obligation to not be involved romantically with any students.

But we have no idea whether this was consensual, we don't know if it continued after she graduated, we don't know if he is a horrible predator who became a teacher just to prey on young girls or if they were generally in love and this was a legitimate relationship.

If they got married and were still together would we be as worried? Yeah he'd have to face the consequences of his actions because no matter the mitigating circumstances he did something wrong legally.

For all we know this girl's family found out and pressured her to come forward against her will.

I think it is a total oversimplification to say this is just about power and abuse. The idea that anyone can make that judgement based on the information available is asinine. No mitigating factors will absolve him of breaking the law, but no one can sit here and say that he's a predator with the information currently available to us. He's definitely an idiot though, that much is obvious. As the person in the position of authority it was his responsibility to shut this down before it became inappropriate.