Another instructor removed by University of Oklahoma amid protest over student's failing grade

[Coventina]

NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – 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.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5638036-university-of-oklahoma-instructor-removed/

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Attention teachers: Your students are spying on you!!

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. This is ridiculous

Soon teachers are going to be afraid of their students. Which is the point of all this. Shame on the university.

[mr715]

10. Teachers are already often afraid of their students

Or their parents.

But it is amazing how conservatives need their safe spaces...

[Torchlight]

2. Demands of ideological purity coming from students

throwing chum in the water in the hopes of netting one or two of the non-White Christian instructors for replacement. Dreams of a whiter tomorrow brought to us by useful idiots and youthful brown-shirts.

[DBoon]

3. students snitching on instructors' politics

sound like the old Soviet Union

[sabbat hunter]

5. What are these kids

going to do when they are out in the workforce? "I didn't feel like coming in today so I didn't", or not arranging for a personal day to attend a protest, or counterprotest. The right wing likes to blame "dem librul blue states", but this is happening at a major university in a deep red state.
I know someone who is an instructor at a college.. One of the requirements is to go to the art gallery found in the lobby of the building pick one painting, and write a 500 word essay on it. There are very straightforward simple instructions of how to write the essay. But many instead of just doing that, use GTP to spit out an essay. The AI detectors the school used immediately flagged the essays. Some were not even about any of the art in the gallery. AI is making people lazier than ever.
Those students then complained about receiving failing grades on the essay.
Entitlement, laziness is not a left/right issue, but it everywhere in our schools and colleges. Administrators in high schools, middle schools agreeing to change a student's grade from a C to a B or even an A, regardless if the student even completed all their classwork, passed tests with those grades. It is no wonder we have trouble recruiting teachers, and having teachers leave teaching, because they don't want to deal with all that BS.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Education and books have been driven underground before

Hypatia. The Islamic Golden Age which preserved knowledge from fallen civilizations, 8th to 13th century.

So if you can get your hands on the knowledge, hide it away. It's valuable, and they won't have it but you will!

[OC375]

7. Cancel Culture

I fear it's just getting started.

[Prairie Gates]

8. OK, my thoughts

Stating that you are excusing absences for attending a protest is silly. Not being even-handed about what you will excuse is even more silly. Not understanding that the climate is going to get you jammed up for something like that is even more silly again.

If you are going to excuse the absences at all, you don't need to announce it. Just do it. This instructor was trying to be provocative. Well, guess what? It worked.

Ultimately, the better lesson is that protesting costs you something, that protesting can be a sacrifice. In this case, students should have had to have decided whether to risk the absence for attending the protest. That's the better lesson than "I'll excuse absences for people I agree with," and then using the dishonest tactic of restricting the excuse to "organized protests" in order to punish those who want to counterprotest. That's a terrible message to students, actually.

[Mad_Machine76]

11. Yes

That’s where they messed up.

[mr715]

12. Actions without consequences produce inaction.

We only value what we are willing to sacrifice for. if there is no sacrifice, there is no value in the protest.

And the instructor shows very poor judgement and little political awareness

[harumph]

9. I have a kid doing the college apps. right now.

Solicitations from OU have gone straight in the trash along with a few others. Even if there were a full ride involved, I wouldn't subject my child to that crap.