She's a shitty troll, backed by a bunch of bigoted religious cunts

But the university should have supported the lecturer

They're fucking gutless

OK is a backwards state though, so it's unsurprising that they're pandering to the religious arseholes

“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.

Open and shut. This student deserves the failing grade.

I've been following this situation. This article leaves out a ton of relevant info. Here's some more details in no particular order:

• The assignment had nothing to do with transgenderism. It was to read and discuss an academic paper about socially enforced gender norms (e.g., bullying the tomboy for not wearing makeup).
• The instructor is a grad student.
• The same day the student filed the complaint, a second grader (a professor I think) re-graded the paper and confirmed the original grade.

Someone I follow on another platform pointed out that this looks suspiciously like a setup to stoke outrage and media attention.

• Samantha Fulnecky is a junior and this is a freshman course.
• This section of the course is the only section taught by a transwoman.
• The assignment is not a meaningful part of the grade. Think of it as a weekly assignment, not a major paper or exam.
• Samantha's mother is a lawyer and conservative activist known for representing two Jan 6ers and for fighting COVID-related mandates. She has been in national news before.
• Samantha & mother contacted media outlets the same day Samantha filed the complaint (the regrade happened that same day too).

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.

The essays were graded out of 25 points, broken down by whether the student demonstrated an understanding of the article and addressed a specific aspect of the argument put forth. Fulnecky received zero points for her work.

"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.”

Samantha might have won this fight, but I guarantee any employee who ends up looking up this name is immediately going to throw her application in the paper. Unless she ends up working for Prager-U or some bullshit like that

Like who in their right mind would want to work with someone like that?

Edit: of course it's an orchestrated stunt specifically to target a trans teacher. God damn it just fucking kill me already.

These Christian nationalist fucking Nazis need to be dealt with.

STOP ABIDING NAZIS!

https://youtu.be/-sOSr7n_8YU

After reading her paper I counted only 3 sentences that seem to directly address the article it's supposed to be a response to. And those sentences are fluffy filler like stating the article was "thought provoking." The rest of the 2 pages is a full on religion paper. There was easily a way to get her point across about disagreeing with the premise while still actually addressing what the article stated.

I'm not claiming to be some amazing writer but that reads like something I would have thrown together in high school when I procrastinated and only had 10 minutes before the assignment was due. Just yikes. I feel dumber for having read that.

There are reasons they are #50 in education.

Everyday I thank the universe/chance/FSM/bender/the great scott/whatever I wasn't born in the USA especially a shithole bible state.

Ugh, what atrocious writing. She deserved a poor grade based on that alone.

I hate that we’ve let whineocracy win.

Oklahomastan

The reason, Oklahoma. Nothing more, nothing less.

USA! USA! USA!

In the recent ' Original Constitutional Principles Affecting Culture' event where the student Fulnecky discusss this, it stick out to me that she admits that the University directed her on how to file a grade appeal & file discrimination claim. She seemed upset that she wasn't validated. I am a person that leans that the paper deserved a grade but not a passing one, it was terrible. You can read the comment from the TPUSA Faculty Advisor even they admit that much.

I find this so bizarre of a claim because MAGA rode a wave nearly a decade ago of fighting campus "Safe Spaces" and "Facts don't care about your Feelings" yet this student is claiming that other groups and religions would have been given "validation" & "Compassion".

Doubt the RW in my state of Oklahoma cares about any of that and just want to assault Public Education from k-12 & higher ed. Her claim is that she didn't get an experience that Far-Right Christians & Republicans have purged from that very campus.

This has nothing to do about anything other than targeting the Instructor as well as setting up plans to defund public schools & all other aspects. OU is really going to hurt themselves caving to this mob and not defending the instructor.

higher education in the USA has largely been a racket for at least two decades now.

insane tuition, predatory and un-banckruptcy-able student loans, broken promises of tuition forgiveness, textbooks and coursework license fees being a racket of their own, utter uselessness of degrees to get jobs, utter uselessness of a lot of people with degrees, nepotism in admissions, fascist attacks on students' free speech, and so on

"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."

"Fulnecky wrote that she was frustrated by the premise of the article because she doesn’t believe that there are more than two genders based on her understanding of the Bible, according to a copy of her essay"

That person clearly just didn't understand the task they were given. It doesn't matter whether you believe there are more than two genders. Clearly there are other people that do and thus do not adhere to the gender norms and that can have an effect on their popularity or whether or not they get bullied. So...that person was just unable to comprehend that there might be people out there that see the world with different eyes...heck, that person even got offended by that fact. That is so stupid!

In academia you are (and should be!) constantly confronted with different ideas and logic and arguments should become your tools to deal with them. That person could have even used a Christian point of view to try and explain the results of that study (whatever that was).

Be fair at least to the professor who said no.

Samantha Fulnecky is a bag of trash and her last name really invites jokes about Charlie Kirk's ending.

“Professors like this are the very reason conservatives can’t voice their beliefs in the classroom,” the group posted.

The virtue signaling is on point. It's interesting that the assignment wasn't to share her beliefs, but to assess the student's ability to absorb and understand the scientific premise of the paper. You can hold your beliefs and still do that, but she chose to ignore it, failed the assignment, and then posted it to the media to call down the wrath of Charlie Kirk's ghost.

This truly is the dumbest timeline, but then again, this was in Oklahoma.

I wonder if there will be a correlation to number of 529s being opened going down.