University of Oklahoma Removes a Teacher It Says Urged Students to Protest

[Hume]

The University of Oklahoma has removed a second instructor in connection with a controversy that erupted after a student was given a zero grade for a paper on gender that cited the Bible as its primary source.

This time, the university said it removed a teacher for encouraging students to support a campus protest over the earlier suspension.

The controversy began when the student, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky, complained about the failing grade she received on the paper. The assignment was to read a scholarly article on “gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health” and then write thoughtfully about some aspect of the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/oklahoma-university-removes-instructor-protest-bible-gender.html

 

[Phantasmal]

The University of Oklahoma has removed a second instructor in connection with a controversy that erupted after a student was given a zero grade for a paper on gender that cited the Bible as its primary source.

This time, the university said it removed a teacher for encouraging students to support a campus protest over the earlier suspension.

The controversy began when the student, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky, complained about the failing grade she received on the paper. The assignment was to read a scholarly article on “gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health” and then write thoughtfully about some aspect of the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/oklahoma-university-removes-instructor-protest-bible-gender.html

This is why OK is ranked 50th in education

 

[Hume]

This is why OK is ranked 50th in education

Whole state is very conservative.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

This is why OK is ranked 50th in education

Actually, not true. Oklahoma comes in pretty consistently at 48th or 49th with New Mexico being 50th in virtually every ratings system out there.

 

[Cypress]

Actually, not true. Oklahoma comes in pretty consistently at 48th or 49th with New Mexico being 50th in virtually every ratings system out there.

Yay, we're number 49!

 

[AProudLefty]

Actually, not true. Oklahoma comes in pretty consistently at 48th or 49th with New Mexico being 50th in virtually every ratings system out there.

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Oklahoma generally ranks near the bottom for education in the U.S., with recent reports from 2025 placing it 50th overall due to low test scores, high dropout rates, and underfunding, despite some variations in specific metrics across different studies

 

[AProudLefty]

Yay, we're number 49!

@T. A. Gardner just wanted to be contrary and point us to New Mexico. It's a distraction.

 

[Jake Starkey]

The University of Oklahoma has removed a second instructor in connection with a controversy that erupted after a student was given a zero grade for a paper on gender that cited the Bible as its primary source.

This time, the university said it removed a teacher for encouraging students to support a campus protest over the earlier suspension.

The controversy began when the student, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky, complained about the failing grade she received on the paper. The assignment was to read a scholarly article on “gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health” and then write thoughtfully about some aspect of the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/oklahoma-university-removes-instructor-protest-bible-gender.html

I take it she used the Bible as her primary source for theme development.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

@T. A. Gardner just wanted to be contrary and point us to New Mexico. It's a distraction.

New Mexico is generally the fail in most surveys of the states. It comes in 50th more often than any other state.

 

[AProudLefty]

New Mexico is generally the fail in most surveys of the states. It comes in 50th more often than any other state.

So they come close.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

So they come close.

My suspicion is that both suffer from having large Native American populations within the state.

 

[Damocles]

Actually, not true. Oklahoma comes in pretty consistently at 48th or 49th with New Mexico being 50th in virtually every ratings system out there.

Big Blue New Mexico... Interesting.

 

[Crepitus]

Whole state is very conservative.

They are also very high in the substance abuse ratings, like #2 in the nation IIRC.

All goes hand in hand.

 

[Jake Starkey]

My suspicion is that both suffer from having large Native American populations within the state.

Nah, it's the uneducated MAGA whites.

 

[IBDaMann]

This is why OK is ranked 50th in education

It would appear that OK is now moving up in the rankings.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Nah, it's the uneducated MAGA whites.

No, it's Native Americans. They have one of the lowest educational achievement levels of any defined ethnic group in the US.

Data on Native Students — National Indian Education Association

www.niea.org

 

[Jake Starkey]

That 12th grade reading proficiency for all races just stinks.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

That 12th grade reading proficiency for all races just stinks.

With union teachers, you don't get what you paid for...

 

[ULTRA MAGA]

The University of Oklahoma has removed a second instructor in connection with a controversy that erupted after a student was given a zero grade for a paper on gender that cited the Bible as its primary source.

This time, the university said it removed a teacher for encouraging students to support a campus protest over the earlier suspension.

The controversy began when the student, a junior named Samantha Fulnecky, complained about the failing grade she received on the paper. The assignment was to read a scholarly article on “gender typicality, peer relations, and mental health” and then write thoughtfully about some aspect of the article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/oklahoma-university-removes-instructor-protest-bible-gender.html

Good riddance to the fucking bitch.

 

[ULTRA MAGA]

That 12th grade reading proficiency for all races just stinks.

It's not the schools it's the parents. My daughter is 14 and has been reading proficiently at 12th grade level since 4th grade.

I did this. No waiting around for some union loser of a teacher.