<p>It is a remarkable story. </p>
<p>However, at the same time, I understand the people who say it didn’t seem that remarkable at the time.</p>
<p>In my high school in the late 1970’s, there were several nominally consensual student-teacher relationships. Some of them were out in the open when the student was still a student, others were more or less open secrets until the student graduated and then ceased to be at all secret. We had a teacher who left his wife (who’d been his student at a previous school) for another student, a teacher who left her husband to follow a student to college, etc. It was not even considered scandalous.</p>
<p>I can see that many of the incidents at Horace Mann were more of a coercive and abusive nature.</p>