Second Instructor Removed by U. Oklahoma Amid Protest Over Student’s Failing Grade
“allegedly told students that they would be excused for attending Friday’s protest of the removal of the teaching assistant at the heart of the controversy”
This is related to the story of the student who failed a gender essay for citing the Bible.
NewsNation reports:
Another instructor removed by University of Oklahoma amid protest over student’s failing grade
Another instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been removed amidst the controversy over one student’s failing grade.
The most recent educator to be removed from the classroom allegedly told students that they would be excused for attending Friday’s protest of the removal of the teaching assistant at the heart of the controversy.
The move was first reported by OU Nightly, which explained that the instructor told students she would excuse any absence for attending the protest. When asked by a student if attending a counter-protest would qualify, the instructor reportedly said it had to be an organized protest.
There were no such protests on Friday, according to OU Nightly, and the student told the student-run outlet that he filed a complaint with the university.
Director of First-Year Composition Dr. Roxanne Mountford called the lecturer’s attendance policy “inappropriate.”
A statement from the university said the instructor “allegedly demonstrated viewpoint discrimination by excusing students who intended to miss class to attend a protest on campus, but not extending the same benefit to students who intended to miss class to express a counter-viewpoint.”…
Students had gathered on Friday to protest the decision to put a graduate student on leave after giving undergraduate student Samantha Fulnecky a failing grade on her essay, which cited the Bible to assert that the “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
The assignment was for a psychology class about lifespan development. Students were asked to write a 650-word response to an academic study that examined whether conformity with gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
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Henry Thoreau’s classic work on Civil Disobedience set the appropriate moral parameters for the skin the protestor needs to have in the game: they have a right to protest, and they have the duty to take the consequences if they lose. Those rules held for centuries; they are how the game was played by icons from John Peter Zenger to Rosa Parks..
I’ve never been comfortable with the “modern” practice of educators excusing you for (invariably liberal) protest activity. We see it all the time in the gun rights community. They’re literally saying to you, “this cause is more important then either of our commitments to your education,” and it’s just another symptom of our national problem where we are not educating youth to be educated, we’re educating youth to be Marxist political agitators.
The classical rules of Civil Disobedience can be overcome by mob rule. Mob rule can occur when a large number of adolescents are congregated in a small area with no adult supervision. Supervision by leftist adults does not count as adult supervision,
I hope you don’t mind my following up on your terrific comment, Henry, by noting that over the last 20-or-so years the American Left has often taken positions suggesting that people should not be punished for violating the law if they acted in order to protest certain traditional American values.
The TA that failed her was a tranny who did not like the fact she rejected alternate genders and then quoted The Bible as to why. The student should have had a meeting with the instructor before the paper was due to lodge objections. The TA should not have issued a failing grade based on his viewpoint. When she got the failing grade which she most likely knew was coming she should have walked this up the chain starting with the instructor and then dept head, dean of that college etc not make a spectacle out of it.
So much went sideways on this one but that TA should be fired for his reaction and the instructor disciplined for not giving the student a second chance on a paper. The one that let the students out to attend only one side of a protest should also be terminated.