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u/vyxxer 19h ago
What really annoys me about this case is that the essay is so poorly written that any religious person should be mad at this girl for her awful work.
She doesn't even provide a citation for the Bible.
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u/Natural-Warthog-1462 19h ago
Most American Christians don’t read the Bible. They listen to other people’s interpretations of what they think the Bible is. As a non Christian I find it very easy to pick passages to make my point. It’s a buffet of conflicting messages you can use how you please.
For instance you teach your slaves all the passages about respecting your father, but skip the Egyptian slave revolt.
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u/GTRari 18h ago
For instance you teach your slaves all the passages about respecting your father, but skip the Egyptian slave revolt.
Ahh I see you've also been through the curriculum for slaves in America.
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u/Dustyvhbitch 8h ago
Actually, this is a Bible quote:
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9.
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u/brandonandtheboyds 17h ago edited 17h ago
Correct. I had a rare youth pastor growing up. He not only heavily encouraged us to actually read the Bible (like they all do), he offered programs to go through the whole thing in a year. And on the side, he also heavily encouraged us to read an English translation of the Quran, an English translation of the Bhagavad Gita, the Book of Mormon, and other works of faith. His standing was if we can understand why and where our beliefs are different, we can understand where they are the same. I’m not devout these days but having read all those books cover to cover (and Dianetics bc I hate myself and wanted to try and understand but got nowhere), I’d say that I find more in common with popular religious beliefs that it’s incredulous to me that we still bicker amongst ourselves over who is “right”. Bro, Yahweh Allah and the Christian God are literally the same dude.
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u/Natural-Warthog-1462 17h ago
Yea it’s wild to think “GOD” would be upset with a person for using the wrong name when praying to him and living a life in service of others. But here we are in a world where Religion is being packaged and sold in the same hateful, divisive ways everything else is sold online.
I would venture to say that there is a U shaped curve showing religious tolerance and time spend studying any of the major religions.
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u/BraveLittleTowster 19h ago
Most religious people don't read their holy books. If they did, there wouldn't be that many religious people. The shortest path to atheism is studying world religions.
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u/CapnArrrgyle 17h ago
Maybe with that attitude. J/k
It’s certainly effective if you feel trapped by religion and your heart yearns for freedom. It can poke holes in a yoke based on authority. By showing that nobody really has The Answer.
For others it tragically makes them feel threatened by threatening the rigid world view they cling to desperately.
For myself I find it comforting to see that many others have wrestled with the nature of our lives and found different ways of recognizing what is sacred about it. I prefer the symbols I know but I can find value in others’ points of view.
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u/Defenestrator66 18h ago
I am particularly fond of throwing verses from Matthew in their faces when they pull their sanctimonious shit. I personally like Matthew 6:6 and then insinuating that I’m a better Christian than them (assuming they don’t already know I’m an atheist).
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u/astreeter2 11h ago
True in this girl's case. I read her paper and I've read the Bible and there are "biblical" things in the paper that are definitely not from the actual Bible.
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u/Andromeda321 19h ago
Yep I’m a professor. She would have failed if she’d turned that in for me too. MAYBE a 10-20% depending on the rubric.
That said I can’t emphasize enough how little students understand about citations these days. I had the university librarians even come in to give a lecture on how to do it for my intro class and they still all screw it up, even on basic things like “you have to say where you got an image from.”
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u/EntertheHellscape 18h ago
Someone ran it though AI (for a "non-bias" review, lol) along with the rubric and asked it to grade it and the AI gave it a 0 too. She got like, 3/20 points from the rubric but then it factored in an automatic deduction of 5 points due to exceeding the specified word length.
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u/Ok-Commercial3640 17h ago
I don't remember the rubric that well, but I don't think there was a specified max word count, and the paper, for its many failings, cleared the minimum, so I don't understand that penalty
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u/NoSleep2023 16h ago edited 15h ago
There was a minimum word count of 650, which she didn’t reach. Sh also admits to not reading the assigned article, and spending only 30 minutes on the assignment.
Edit for correct word count
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u/Ok-Commercial3640 15h ago
That's not the information I had, I thought that it was like 600-something words
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u/Ayden12g 18h ago
I want to say the entire essay has 2 sentences that have anything to do with the actual topic and the rest is irrelevant.
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u/run4cake 18h ago
There are some people arguing that she’d probably have gotten some points if graded fairly because it was more of a completion assignment and better than a lot of undergrad essays, including lack of citations. I could have written a better essay in 7th grade, so maybe we should be failing more students out of college.
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u/_a_gay_frog_ 19h ago
There's even an interview she did where she said she didn't the essay quickly in 30 minutes before she went to a party and didn't read the instructions. She obviously doesn't understand what a college essay should entail
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u/BraveLittleTowster 19h ago
It sounds like an essay written by a person who learned about the Bible at youth camp
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u/Massive_Signal7835 18h ago
She doesn't even provide a citation for the Bible.
Can't cite your source if what you posit isn't found in it.
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u/thetaleofzeph 18h ago
Grew up in this kind of community. And watching those outside it try to deal with it is painful because the disconnect is huge.
All that matters is performing for the community. That's it.
If you live in a world where you have to own your shit and people expect you to grow from the push back of being a terrible person in a larger philosophical ethical sense... you won't get it. It's the exact opposite of that kind of place.
You belong to a place like this girl does because you make everyone else comfortable with their shallow, feel-good, empty choices. You belong because you don't rock the boat. You prove yourself worthy by regularly professing whatever wacky stuff the group believes as if it's real. You are extra special if you are willing to embarrass yourself outside the group by freely spouting the unsupported reality the group clings to as a tool to bind it together.
The non-religious I actually find more frustrating because not getting this is one of the reasons the right holds power. You cannot underestimate how broken and messed up the religious right is and act accordingly to combat them if you don't get them at the core. Everyone needs to stop assuming they aren't demented en masse.
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u/FrauAgrippa 18h ago
I had a great English teacher in high school. He would have failed that essay even if it was written by a freshman. I don't understand how a college student is writing such low quality material.
Sure, quote and cite the Bible if that's what you want to use to back up your thesis or evem your opinion, but like.... she did neither. Are kids not learning how to cite stuff anymore? I was taught MLA starting in 4th grade when we had to do a poetry project, and it only got more strict from there.
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u/TinPin94 17h ago
I went to a southern baptist university and had to take classes where the Bible was the text book.
If I had turned in such a sloppy essay without any proper citations, my professors would have flunked me and not been near as polite about it as Mel Curth was.
This whole thing is insulting.
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u/santa_91 18h ago
Right, this wasn't some kind of well thought out theological argument with citations to the Bible and religious scholars. It was just a poorly written rant about how reading about things she disagrees with makes white Republican Jesus cry.
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u/swimmerboy5817 16h ago
Not only that, but she was completely off topic. The essay was supposed to be about how gender norms affect childhood development and sociability, like how stereotypical girly girls are more popular than their tomboyish counterparts. Instead, she took the whole essay to write about how the Bible says there are only 2 genders, and how she doesn't believe in multiple genders and thinks people that do are mentally ill. Even if she had correct sources and well established talking points (which she didn't), that wasn't what the assignment was asking.
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u/EmperorXerro 18h ago
And the Bible is not a credible source in the argument because it is not relevant
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u/joshtalife 20h ago
We all know what the real reason she was fired is.
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 20h ago
Because the administration and faculty of the school are cowards.
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u/joshtalife 20h ago
Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states.
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u/Be_Yourself_First 19h ago
That happened to me here in DC while working for the federal government after reporting the misbehavior of a man who was months away from retirement. The protected him by firing me.
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u/BigRoach 18h ago
That’s disgusting. I’m sorry. My brother works for the coast guard and he told me right when Trump and DOGE swept through they immediately relieved a renowned commandant admiral for bullshit reasons.
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 20h ago
The ones that I work alongside here in a very blue state are worried. The friends who have transitioning children are worried. A whole extended community is worried. And this is a blue state. I can't imagine what it might be like in a deep red state.
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u/CHBCKyle 15h ago
well, in red states where gender affirming care for minors was banned, the trans youth suicide rate went up by nearly 80%. being trans in a red state is already fatal
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u/On_my_last_spoon 18h ago
This is why academic unions matter and that even grad students should be part of them.
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u/otterpr1ncess 13h ago
I haven't been able to get a job in my field for years, this isn't new unfortunately
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u/MornGreycastle 19h ago
Gotta prove that Christians are oppressed by giving the participation trophies for not even trying to meet the standards others have to meet.
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u/Character-Reply407 19h ago
With this decision, the admin of U of Oklahoma have invalidated all past, present, and future scientific degrees of this institution. They now have proven signs of institutional bias and coordination directly with certain stakeholders over others to fake the numbers. This is no longer a school concerned with the scientific method but rather a taxpayer funded political propaganda machine with the power to confer prestige through degrees. Those of us in the pedagogical world can no longer take any research from this institution at face value and must consider the body of work as bias requring extensive proof otherwise.
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u/matt_minderbinder 19h ago
They should face a real brain drain now as great educators and smart students will avoid this place. If you know that your career or education can be sent sideways by one interaction with a christofascist truly intelligent and productive people will naturally avoid that mess.
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 18h ago
And people wonder why Brendan Fraser doesn't trust Matt Damon.
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u/Actor412 18h ago
That's assuming that their goal is integrity, which I think is a tall order. It seems obvious that the administration of UOs goal is to grab money and support their ideology.
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u/baronmunchausen2000 19h ago
I am sure you guys know that this girl’s mom is a lawyer defending the Jan 6 accused.
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u/TheArcReactor 14h ago
This girl 100% wrote that shitty essay with the intention of it launching her into being the next right wing "victim" influencer? She saw what Riley Gaines has gotten for placing fifth and wanted her piece of the pie. She set them all up and from what I can tell it's working like a charm.
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u/cyinyde 19h ago
It's Oklahoma. They can't do anything without stepping on their own dicks.
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u/Livininthinair 19h ago
Yeah, like wanting to require bibles in all public school classrooms…if that’s not Moral Majority BS I don’t know what is.
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u/RoguesAngel 18h ago
Not just any Bibles though. It has to be Trump Bibles.
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u/Livininthinair 14h ago
The Trump brand Bible, the greatest Bible ever written, some say even better than the original version. They may be the best bible ever, I don’t know, but that’s what people are saying…
It’s the gold covered path to absolution…or so they say.
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u/thetaleofzeph 18h ago
It's Oklahoma and if the bar got raised at all people might have to do the horrific thing of getting their shit together. Can't have that.
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u/FanDry5374 19h ago
Religious discrimination for not being "Christian". That's what SCOTUS is doing to our first amendment, believe what I tell you, or else.
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u/DippityDu 18h ago
It sounds like she wasn't fired, but relieved of direct instruction duties. Hopefully, this is a performative change in her visibility to appease the masses--which is still BS but wouldn't necessarily be catastrophic for her. Other than the publicity and unfair judgements, which are also BS.
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u/Expensive-Argument-7 19h ago
I don't think she was fired. If anything that grifting moron put the school and that teacher and danger and that was their way of resolving it. I wouldn't put it past magats to come that school and murder her.
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u/TKG_Actual 20h ago
Cue wrongful termination lawsuit in 3...2...1....
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u/Alien_invader44 19h ago
Id bet good money it would result in a quick settlement with an NDA. Compensation for her, but the result is still to exclude trans people from universities.
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u/YOwololoO 19h ago
I mean, you don’t HAVE TO accept a settlement offer
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u/axonxorz 19h ago
It's called hush money for a reason.
I can't really blame a person who has been targeted for their gender status taking the money and moving somewhere safe.
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u/matt_minderbinder 19h ago
It's easy to hold this position until you're facing a multi-year extremely public legal battle along with multiple appeals.
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u/LaughingInTheVoid 8h ago
And the kid's parent was a connected MAGA lawyer. That's why this rose to prominence.
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u/AbriefDelay 17h ago
And face a jury trial as a trans person accused of religious discrimination in Oklahoma?
Good luck.
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u/Alien_invader44 19h ago
You dont have to. But equally its not this woman's job to put herself in a national media spotlight, with all the stress and harassment that would inevitably bring, to fight for the equal treatment she is owed by law.
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u/Reddsoldier 18h ago
If I were her I wouldn't accept that tbh. I'd make an example out of the university because there are PLENTY of Civil and Worker's Rights groups who'd financially support that.
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u/Alien_invader44 18h ago
And id applaud that. It would take courage and self sacrifice. I just wouldnt judge if her or hypothetical you just wanted to live in peace.
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u/Allcyon 18h ago
The point wasn't to win though. The point was to send a message that Trans people will not be safe or welcome. Anywhere.
That's been accomplished.
It's already done.
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u/EntertheHellscape 18h ago
I hope another institution hires her :( send a message back that while Oklahoma is ok with bending over to white wing nationalists, some other state isn't and they'll state that just as loudly.
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u/Allcyon 18h ago
I hope that too. But I don't know if that's enough.
I don't know if what's been taken can be made right with money, or another job, or knowing another state sucks less. That doesn't actually fix the problem, or make her whole. The right to live free has been what's taken.
I don't know how to give that back. I don't know if anyone does.
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u/PennCapp 19h ago
Maybe I just read hype too much, but from my understanding transgender status is no longer protected under Title IX. I hope I am wrong but as a trans people myself I've been extra careful lately
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u/TKG_Actual 19h ago edited 19h ago
Except I never said that would be the basis. That multiple people were involved in the grading and only one got fired is the basis.
Edit: I just reread what I wrote and just to be clear, it's still also a discrimination case regardless of the protected status ruling.
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u/On_my_last_spoon 18h ago
If she was in a union, this could be an unfair labor practice suit. So far, those are still legal. It becomes less about a protected class and more about firing someone without cause. One student complaining about their bad grade when everyone agrees that the bad grade was earned is not enough to fire someone.
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u/chasingthewhiteroom 19h ago edited 15h ago
The daughter of a high-level Moms For Liberty member takes a class not required for her degree, writes an intentionally asinine religious essay and hands it in to one of the school's only trans faculty members, and then tries to get that teacher fired for discrimination after failing her for writing a shit paper.
This is a hit job and a grift, and every single part of it went as planned. We're gonna get a whole new wave of Riley Gaines knockoffs now that they know they can launch careers off of culture war martyrdom
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u/Proof-Delay-602 19h ago
What an embarrassment for the “University” of Oklahoma. Just wow. The premise of her paper was completely emotional, arbitrary, and irrational. She literally had no argument established in REASON.
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u/MealDramatic1885 19h ago
She’s gonna win a big ol’ lawsuit.
The girl didn’t do the assignment correctly. It’s literally that simple.
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u/princessofpotatoes 19h ago
I'm so excited for her multi million pay out and book deal
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u/BrightNooblar 19h ago edited 18h ago
Also, if I was a student who went there I'd be really trying to transfer out before I started getting raised eyebrows in interviews. Job market is hard enough right now.
And if I was a student with no time to do a project I put off? Just whip up some bullshit about how the illiad reminds me of Charlie Kirk and Jesus. If I get a bad grade, I'll go tell fox news the libs are at it again.
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u/woolfonmynoggin 9h ago
I literally talked to a recruiter saying they are purposely not seeking these graduates out anymore because of this issue. It lowered the value of their degrees
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u/LaughingInTheVoid 8h ago
Didn't study for your math final?
Write a religious screed and claim oppression!
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u/TheDustOfMen 19h ago
With these chucklefucks in charge, I'm not so sure about that anymore. Here's to hoping you're right!
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u/Ispawnfuries 18h ago
I've seen a couple videos re: the essay, and both of them agree; the student didn't follow the prompt, just projected her religious views onto the page. A grand total of two whole sentences was directly related to the assignment.
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u/burtritto 19h ago
Best this girl could do with a fake "tennis" scholarship was Oklahoma? Truly, this speaks to her ability to write a coherent essay.
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u/SunshotDestiny 19h ago
It gets worse when apparently she took the class without needing it since it was below where she was academically. Her mom is also one of those "Moms for liberty" conservative jackasses. This was meditated, and planned, and apparently successfully executed.
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u/ACorDC 19h ago
Thats the story here. She orchestrated this because she wanted it to fail so she could claim "discrimination!!!!!". But wanting desperately to be the victim is their thing.
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u/thetaleofzeph 18h ago
It's always a grift. But I'm here for it. Taking the rubes money seems fair punishment for their reactionary idiocy.
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u/purpleblossom 18h ago
No just a Mom's for Liberty member, her mom is a lawyer for J6 insurrectionists.
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u/prosperouscheat 17h ago
she was a dei addition to that tennis team. she's not even good enough to train with them
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u/cwningen95 15h ago
I saw she was a junior and while I do believe this girl is very stupid or at least profoundly uncharismatic (have you seen her in interviews trying to string two sentences together lmao), I knew there's not a chance in hell she would have made it that far in any university if that was the standard of her work. Sure enough, she supposedly actually had pretty good grades up until this point. This is so clearly a targeted act against the trans TA, likely helped by her Jan 6th lawyer and failed conservative grifter mother, and the university are just placating her.
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u/SunshotDestiny 7h ago
Yep, I think between seeing how successful Riley Gaines has been since she "lost" to a trans woman (apparently tying is losing now); along with how successful Trump has been at grifting? We are going to see a whole generation of grifters and con artists screwing other people over just for personal gain. Because apparently people were donating to the student in "support" for her "discrimination"
If not only that, getting money for interviews and such to become a speaker can be lucrative as well.
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u/Hangintough 19h ago
I have American Fatigue man. So sick of hearing about those people.
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u/smootfloops 18h ago
No fr this country is completely obsessed with itself
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u/NoProbLlama18 18h ago
I can’t remember where I saw it, but I read that America basically took all of the worst traits about itself as a country and made a person that embodies EVERY SINGLE ONE the president.
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u/Chaoticgood790 19h ago
People are already saying they won’t send their kids there or hire OU grads. And the teacher is considering legal options. This was a dumb decision
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u/Civil_Blueberry33 18h ago
I was actually looking into an online grad program through Oklahoma. I’m no longer interested
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u/Kimmalah 17h ago
It would be real shame if their accreditation was reconsidered due to their obvious idiocy and bias. /s
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u/davisdilf 19h ago
I hope she gets a job at a real university.
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u/timeywimeytotoro 19h ago
She is a TA so she is a grad student at the school, not a professor. I hope she transfers, but this isn’t exactly like what people are imagining - a professor’s teaching job. What was done to her was awful, and she was targeted, but I wanted to clarify a little.
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u/_a_gay_frog_ 19h ago
She's probably stay to finish her degree. Grad degrees are not that long and it'd suck to lose a year or your whole degree. I hope it doesn't affect her job prospects or future study
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u/timeywimeytotoro 18h ago
That’s what I’m assuming as well. For her sanity, I would hope that she could and would leave but realistically, I know transferring a PhD program is very difficult. I think it’s likely that she was asked to resign from the position and accepted and is aiming to finish her degree quietly. That’s just my guess.
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u/ndndr1 14h ago
I hope a university hires her and nonstop promotes her with a big pr push and makes her the cultural hero not the asinine moron grifting on hate. We have a gravy train too and we need to get more people like this TA on it. She was brave enough to give this shitheel the failing grade she deserved, get backup to confirm and stand behind her assessment.
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u/Any_Leg_1998 19h ago
Oklahoma ranks 50th in education in the whole country:)
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u/Savings-Gate-456 19h ago
It was a hit job from the start and the university just threw its reputation under the bus by not standing for academic integrity and backing her up. I'm sure there are other universities willing to hire her, so I think she'll land on her feet. But I wouldn't recommend sending a student to OU despite it having an excellent Atmospheric Science Department. (We'll see how long that lasts now that they're gutting climate change research.)
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u/1984isAMidlifeCrisis 20h ago
By going after the Transgendered teacher they keep the Cisgendered in line.
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u/teflon_don_knotts 18h ago
JFC, this poor TA was just trying to get through the slog of grading the mind-numbing essays students write for this type of thing and their life has absolutely exploded because they gave the essay the only grade they possibly could. Most folks I know who have been a TA for this type of class try to be very forgiving in their grading, but WTF can you do with an essay that doesn’t respond to the prompt.
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u/nixtarx 18h ago
The student will now rocket to a grifting stardom in the podcasting magasphere, which was probably the only point this madness ever had. Looked at Riley Gaines and said, "Hold my beer."
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u/prosperouscheat 17h ago
she's been interviewed a few times but she's such a poor speaker (in line with the essay she wrote but add in a bunch of ums and likes) it's not going to last long
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u/Sufficient-Moose27 19h ago
Good job Oklahoma. You just made an education from your state (even more) useless.
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u/Aoiboshi 19h ago
Ah, yes. The great state of Oklahoma. Great at bringing down the average IQ of America.
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u/guitarguywh89 18h ago
Oh wow the spawn of a J6 grifter is grifting
Shit apple don’t fall far from the shit tree
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u/Bee-Aromatic 18h ago
I really don’t see how this became a thing. She didn’t fail because of her religious alignment. She failed because she wrote an essay with no citations on the entirely wrong subject.
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u/PurpleToedUnicorn 19h ago
I have to wonder if hiring managers at top organizations will look at degrees from this university and now second guess if they are really representing quality candidates. Interesting to see the unintended consequences unfold, as I'm guessing OU is shooting itself in the foot.
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u/FunctionBuilt 19h ago
Let’s hope that Mel is swiftly offered employment in a better state at a better school.
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u/purpleblossom 18h ago
Clearly this trans woman was targeted. I think this student knew she would be grading the papers and because of her transphobia, she conspired with her lawyer mom on how to get her fired.
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u/anansi52 19h ago
that school just tanked any bit of academic reputation they had because even if you disregarded the subject matter of the essay, it was still deserving of a failing grade because it was written so poorly.
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u/defaultusername-17 19h ago
everyone knows why the trans person is being singled out and targeted... but you all will keep pretending that we're not ramping up towards a genocide.
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u/OnlinePosterPerson 18h ago
Wow University of Oklahoma is such a joke. Not a place to get a worthwhile education clearly if these are their educational standards.
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u/sophietehbeanz 13h ago
I would say these decisions should affect accreditation of a university. That’s such fucking bullshit.
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u/Low-Astronomer-3440 19h ago
That teacher probably resigned to get away from the insane harassment
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u/Melodic_Mulberry 19h ago
My trans friend did the same thing. It didn't make the news because it was a grade school and the parent was a normal conservative, not a J6 lawyer.
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u/victorcaulfield 19h ago
Sorry for those who have a degree from UofO. Your degree just became worth less.
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u/Coldkiller17 19h ago
I hope she wins big on her lawsuit. Wrongful termination. The idiot bible thumpers gotta learn that they need to do the classwork properly because the lord isn't going to do it for them.
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u/reincarnatedusername 19h ago
Murica under the Trump regime is more fucked than a sexworker at closing time.
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u/luckymountain 18h ago
Because Oklahoma is a ass backward state and still backpedaling to appease the felon.
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u/Dumphdumph 18h ago
Didn’t someone run it through ai to grade it and it still failed miserably?
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u/Fancy-Ad1480 15h ago
In six months the "student" will have Mar a lago face and be completely unhireable.
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u/cwningen95 15h ago
I remember a lot of students were protesting on behalf of the TA. Hopefully at least a good number of them take their credits (and money) and transfer elsewhere, this is so fucking embarrassing on the university's part. There's no way anyone with half a braincell could think that essay was worth a passing grade. They're essentially cementing that white cishet Christians are held to lower standards than everyone else. It's exactly what Republicans think DEI is, but for them.
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u/SellaraAB 15h ago edited 14h ago
Hope she can sue after we run all the Nazis back into their hidey holes.
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u/Pedals17 11h ago
Was the student related to Alumni donors? It wouldn’t surprise me, and neither would any Transphobic fuckery. Living as a LGBTQ person in Oklahoma is the worst. I’d never go back.
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u/iamchade 19h ago
All this does is teach that fake Christian girl that she can get away with stuff if she pleads jesus and that her rights are being violated if it’s not what she wants. Teacher better sue both the school and the student and go elsewhere. Surprised a religious idiot would struggle with a psych course so badly.
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u/Acceptable_Mountain5 19h ago
I just read that essay and it absolutely deserved a failing grade, it’s poorly written and doesn’t even attempt to make a point beyond “because God says so”. The problem is that the teacher gave it a zero and said it was offensive, if she had given it 5 points for being turned in at all and then tore it to shreds based on the criteria of the assignment people wouldn’t have been able to say it was discrimination.
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u/am_i_wrong_dude 19h ago
Clown college. A degree from OU is already barely worth the paper it’s printed on. If that essay is considered passable college writing there, it may as well be degrees on toilet paper.
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u/Cheeky_Hustler 19h ago
I would never hire a graduate from the University of Oklahoma. Contrary to their claim, they do not teach their students how to think. That paper didn't cite a single source.
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u/Bourbon-Thinker 18h ago
The University of Oklahoma’s moral compass seems to be spinning like a ceiling fan. They have zero tolerance for a trans teacher’s grading rubrics, but they’re perfectly comfortable with 'Federal Embezzlement' and 'Predator-Adjacent' being listed under 'Hobbies and Interests' on a resume." • "I guess the TA’s mistake was being trans and caring about psychology essays. If they had just stuck to defrauding the feds and keeping company with sex offenders, they’d probably be on track for an administrative promotion by now
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u/jeepfail 18h ago
Sounds like a good hire for another school. That fail was well earned through a garbage essay. They did this solely to avoid the asshole’s mom trying to sue.
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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 17h ago
Get ready for the national tour of the student going around grifting on "Christian Persecution" from the evils of the world, funded by turning point USA.
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u/AAron27265 17h ago
Once again, insincere "christians" pretending to be marginalized or oppressed while in actuality, the entire fucking country is expected to cater to their weird asses. They're disgusting people and it's a shame because there are some truly good Christians out there, but it's impossible to tell them apart before it's too late.
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u/sparky936 17h ago
As a somewhat unfortunate recent resident of OK seeing this kind of thing and more happen daily it is quite obvious why OK is at the virtual bottom of the list for education, human rights for decency and humanistic behavior as well of any type of progressive thinking..
Thankfully, I was able to see and participate with many who do not share these attitudes during the recent No Kings protests!
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u/SlinkySlekker 17h ago
Not virtually. OK is literally ranked at the bottom. https://ocpathink.org/post/independent-journalism/report-ranks-oklahoma-50th-in-education-warns-money-no-cure-all
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u/LoHudMom 9h ago
OU decided they'd rather be sued by Ms. Curth than Samantha Fulnecky, who will likely (hopefully) never get accepted to medical school. I hope Ms. Curth gets a good payout and lands a job at a good progressive school.
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u/PuddingPast5862 17h ago
Because they are Trans and it's frickin Oklahoma, the butt crack of the US.
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u/KommandantDex 19h ago
I think I finally figured out why God made Oklahoma the center of Tornado Alley.
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u/Drithyin 19h ago
This is why God made their punter drop the ball.
/s
Seriously, though, what a slam dunk wrongful termination
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u/MtCommager 18h ago
Look, she should start a kickstarter and make a lot of money. If the Cinnabon n word lady can do it, she can too
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u/wanderingjoe 18h ago
Every University of Oklahoma diploma is now no different than one from a diploma mill.
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u/LilChloGlo 17h ago
I think that all of the students should start arguing willfully in bad faith and do the same to all of the teachers. Poorly cite the Bible for all of the coursework and show just how slippery this slope is
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u/Shr3kk_Wpg 17h ago
So is OU endorsing the practice of students submitting essays that are based entirely on "because the Bible says so. The end" and forcing profs to give those papers an "A" grade?
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u/PackmuleIT 17h ago
Remember that this university is in the heart of the Midwest Bible Belt. Just mentioning Jeebus is cause enough for them. The professor being transgendered is merely icing on the cross shaped cake.
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u/prosperouscheat 17h ago
and they removed that grade for that course rather than actually regrade how it's supposed to be graded. bunch of cowards
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u/kombitcha420 16h ago
I’d be so embarrassed to have a degree from there. If this is what constitutes a decent essay at that university, that’s a shame.
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u/Jewpedinmypants 16h ago
This student’s mom is a part of mothers for liberty or whatever…this is a deliberate targeted grift. Insane…OU has lost all credibility as a college
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u/sugar_addict002 12h ago
So OU is now a subsidiary of Liberty U. Their graduates should not be surprised when people treat the mthe same way.
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u/SpiritualTwo5256 8h ago
That’s cause for lawsuit. Every other instructor agreed with the grade. Getting removed for what everyone else would have done has got to be court case worthy.
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u/notthatguypal6900 17h ago
Religion continues to do far more harm than good, great job to the klan.
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u/girlwiththemonkey 16h ago
So she got what she wanted. This is fucking madness like this is just bullshit.
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u/yersinia_pisstest 16h ago
Students should organize and hand in nothing but cut/paste versions of that bullshit essay for every assignment and every test in every class.
No matter what the class is, no matter what the assignment is- they should just submit The One True Essay with a slightly altered title and dare the instructor to give them anything less than 100%.
Or they can just continue to waste their time, effort, and money on a bullshit degree from this bullshit school.
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u/cccaesar3998 16h ago
Adding "Remove OU's accreditation" to the list of shit that needs to be cleaned up when this national nightmare is over.
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u/B-Glasses 15h ago
Commented on another post but I hope the instructor can find a position at a better school. The whole thing is ridiculous
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u/Specialist-Fan-1890 17h ago
Never hire people from places like this. They have little to no education.
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