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In reply to the discussion: OU student claims bad grade is an attack on her faith [View all]Takket
(23,398 posts)She's officially made herself famous.........
https://www.comicsands.com/oklahoma-house-fulnecky-citation-recognition?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram#Echobox=1764963019
Samantha Fulnecky, the University of Oklahoma student who received a zero on a psychology essay about gender after using the Bible as her only source, was honored by the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a special "Citation of Recognition" this week after her complaintwhich resulted in a transgender graduate student being placed on administrative leavemade headlines.
Fulnecky's instructor Mel Curth, a transgender woman, assigned her students a 650-word essay about how gender stereotypes impact societal expectations of individuals. Fulnecky instead wrote about what the Bible says about "traditional gender roles," arguing that to refer to them as "stereotypes" is "demonic."
Curth began their feedback to Fulnecky by stressing that the grade was not penalized over the students personal views, but instead reflected the fact that she failed to follow the assignment guidelines, contradicted her own arguments, included offensive remarks, and offered no empirical support.
But Fulnecky complainedand immediately received the support of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, which said Curth "lacks the intellectual maturity to set her own bias aside and take grading seriously."