Oklahoma U. Student Claims She Failed Psych Essay on Gender for Citing the Bible
“I don’t believe I should receive a failing grade on an assignment based upon my opinion.”
It’s no secret that progressives want to get the Bible out of education completely, unless its teachings can be twisted to support their views.
The Oklahoman reports:
OU student says Bible-based essay grade violated free-speech rights
For a psychology course at the University of Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.
In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. She cited the Bible to support her stance that eliminating gender in society would be “detrimental” because that would put people “farther from God’s original plan for humans.”
She received zero points out of 25 on the essay. The instructor said Fulnecky failed to use empirical evidence and called parts of her essay offensive.
“To call an entire group of people ‘demonic’ is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,” the instructor wrote in the online grading platform.
Fulnecky, a junior majoring in psychology, was stunned and confused. She asked her instructor to reconsider her grade. She said she stayed within the essay’s requirements and the guidelines spelled out in the syllabus, noting that neither mentioned “empirical evidence.”
The instructor said no.Fulnecky believed she was failed because she cited the Bible. She emailed the governor Nov. 17, along with OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. and the Teacher Freedom Alliance, led by former state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, asking for help.
“In this situation, my instructor found it offensive to be quoting from the Bible,” Fulnecky said in her email. “I don’t believe I should receive a failing grade on an assignment based upon my opinion. I am reaching out to all of you to see if you can help me.”
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More to the point, she shouldn’t receive a failing grade on her assignment based upon the TEACHER’S opinion. Especially when that opinion (gasp!) violates diversity!
This piece doesn’t make clear whether the student essay is supposed to be a personal response, or an evidence based argument. The teacher argued lack of empirical evidence, but the criteria for the essay as listed in The Oklahoman does not mention any requirement for empirical evidence. Worse, the graduate teaching assistant itself specifically stated the requirement for empirical evidence is only because Fulnecky failed to support the Woke approved position – any paper supporting the Woke position didn’t require evidence.
Compounding the issue, the graduate teaching assistant misrepresented what the paper actually argued, and called it’s lying misrepresentation offensive e.g. claiming that it is highly offensive to call a group of people demonic whereas Fulnecky actually said “society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth”.
It would appear that the graduate teaching assistant is Woko Haram, unwilling to tolerate non-group think, and bigoted towards Christianity 101.
The students paper didn’t violates diversity. The paper violated the teacher’s definition of diversity.
The essay was double plus ungood.