Because the "victim" was a 17 year-old boy who probably high-fived and bragged to all his buddies about banging the hot gym teacher. I doubt he needs counseling.
And why the double standard? because men are different from women and teenage boys are different from teenage girls. That's just the way it is.
The “victim” was 16 at the time. And the law addresses age not gender. So there is no excuse for boy/girls or men/women to be handeled any differently.
My freshman year in college (back when we still rode horses to campus), I was a 17 year-old "dating" (that's what we called it back then, I think the kids call it something else today) a 24 year-old grad student. Now, she didn't know I was only 17 until a few weeks into our relationship and she wasn't my grad assistant. But still, there was certainly nothing predatory about it.
As you point out, there is a difference between teenage boys and teenage girls. If this woman was in her thirties, or older, I might see a more serious problem. What she did was wrong and she should lose her job, but prison isn't the answer here.
“And why the double standard? because men are different from women and teenage boys are different from teenage girls. That’s just the way it is. “
yes they are different, boys mature at a slower rate than girls. thats just the way it is.
Simple. It's the liberal view of the world imposed on the rest of the citizenry and so that's the way it is. In the liberal worldview, there are two classes. The oppressor class and the victim class. These classes are more or less permanent and they are defined by liberals. By definition, only those belonging to the oppressor class can be guilty of "oppression" and those in the victim class, of "victimization". Examples of oppressors are men, the rich, Caucasians, Christians, hetrosexuals..etc. Those of the victim class - women, the "poor", blacks, homos..etc.