An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
Samantha Fulnecky, 20, filed a complaint with the administration, the latest flashpoint in the ongoing debate over academic freedom on college campuses amid President Donald Trump’s push to end diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and restrict how campuses discuss issues of race, gender and sexuality.
“OU remains firmly committed to fairness, respect and protecting every student’s right to express sincerely held religious beliefs,” the university wrote in an email on Wednesday.
Utter horseshit.
Go read the “essay”. It’s online, and it sounds like it was written by a fifth grader sitting in a Sunday School. It’s completely inappropriate for a science course, and this stupid motherfucker should have gotten a failing grade.
There is no right people hold more dear in this country than their presumed right of stupidity.
Reminds me of another famous essay
What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time. I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They’re very good for Christmas. I don’t think that a football’s a very good Christmas present.
Not only that, if she’d been at a school of theology, she still would have got a failing grade. Her essay doesn’t even “prove” what she states based on her source material.
Wow, that was something.
I’m fed up being told how I’m supposed to live according to their interpretation of a collection of 2000 year old stories. Like if you choose to live your life according to that book, live your best life. But I’ll be damned if I’ll let it be forced on me.
You just know that it’s only a matter of time until dozens of people die in a bridge collapse because the civil engineer who designed it just wrote some Bible verses out on their engineering exam and got awarded top marks for it as it wasn’t worth any lecturer’s tenure and pension.
“Please note that I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs,” the instructor wrote in feedback obtained by The Oklahoman. Instead, the instructor said the paper did “not answer the questions for the assignment.”
The paper “contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive” the criticism went on.
This is three-quarters into the article and should be at the top. The instructor took care to establish that the grade was not punitive based on the student’s belief but reflective of failing to meet objective criteria established as the requirement for the assignment.
With all due respect to Samantha Fulnecky, 20, she needs to read the assignment and learn to answer the asked questions. She is what the Ancient Greek philosophers would refer to as a “Zeus-damned idiot.” Oklahoma must be hard up for admissions.
It’s 50th of 50 in education, IIRC, so that is probably your answer :-)
