Why Are So Many Teachers Sleeping With Their Students?

The upward trend doesn't seem to say anything good about Modernity.

This has obviously been “a thing” for a long time, back to Mary Kay Letourneau and others (and way before that), but it feels like we’ve had a bunch of cases recently of female teachers sleeping with their male students.

This one in Missouri is recent:

This one is from Iowa, and the teacher had recently gotten married:

This one is from Tennessee. She actually got arrested, got released, and reached out to the boy again. I believe she’s now claiming she is pregnant, too:

This one in Lakota involved an 8th-grader:

So, is this an increasing trend?