Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology essay

[Anonymous]

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Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Yes. All conservatives papers should just be given the highest grade in the class.

Sarcasm, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Did you read her essay and the rubric?

It was terribly written and embarrassingly piss poor work for a college junior. There is some reasonable speculation she did this deliberately to go crying to the media.

You can read it here: https://archive.is/LT0r1

It absolutely deserved a zero. Runon sentences, repetitive, lack of any sources, didn't address the question.

NP. Somehow I suspect that an equally badly written essay that made nonsensical progressive points that agreed with the instructor’s positions would not have received a zero.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the poor writing was purposeful. If she actually put effort into it they probably would have just given her full marks on it, but she purposely wanted the low grade so that she could whine about it to the media.

I think this too but its a reaction paper but her reaction has no relevance to the topic and doesn't draw into the article. Its a poorly written rant. On the flip side, this doesn't seem like a topic or paper for a psychology assignment.

Her belief/worldview, which has been shaped by the Bible is that the whole premise of the research would be irrelevant if not for society having bought into this lie. I truly don't see how that doesn't tie to the article.

The point is her worldview and belief system isn't valid simply because she has it. Nor is saying "because the Bible tells me so."

That may work in sheltered religious circles but it's not how the real world works and certainly not how academia works.

She didn't engage in the material except to go on a rant about her strongly held opinions without any empirical evidence to back up her positions. That's a zero in any book.

And to go whining to the press about it? She should be expelled. She clearly has no business being in a university unless she's there to get her MRS degree. She doesn't seem to have the intellect to be a university student. Which is pretty typical for a Bible thumper, but I digress.

The opinion that sex isn’t binary is a quasi-religious belief and the professor is essentially responding “because that’s what I believe.” The professor is as dim as her student, but is using institutional power to enforce her own religious belief system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Did you read her essay and the rubric?

It was terribly written and embarrassingly piss poor work for a college junior. There is some reasonable speculation she did this deliberately to go crying to the media.

You can read it here: https://archive.is/LT0r1

It absolutely deserved a zero. Runon sentences, repetitive, lack of any sources, didn't address the question.

NP. Somehow I suspect that an equally badly written essay that made nonsensical progressive points that agreed with the instructor’s positions would not have received a zero.

This is what I want to know. Or what this same student's similar writing and quality received earlier in the semester. She says she got 100's. We're those magically better quality writing?

A zero is an emotional reaction. Her essay likely deserved a low grade. Exactly how low depends on the rigor that's actually been expected in this class and applied to others, not the standard outsiders want to impose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Did you read her essay and the rubric?

It was terribly written and embarrassingly piss poor work for a college junior. There is some reasonable speculation she did this deliberately to go crying to the media.

You can read it here: https://archive.is/LT0r1

It absolutely deserved a zero. Runon sentences, repetitive, lack of any sources, didn't address the question.

NP. Somehow I suspect that an equally badly written essay that made nonsensical progressive points that agreed with the instructor’s positions would not have received a zero.

This is what I want to know. Or what this same student's similar writing and quality received earlier in the semester. She says she got 100's. We're those magically better quality writing?

A zero is an emotional reaction. Her essay likely deserved a low grade. Exactly how low depends on the rigor that's actually been expected in this class and applied to others, not the standard outsiders want to impose.

DP. I agree that the zero was an emotional reaction. The comments reflect that, as well (her misuse of “demonic,” for example).

[Anonymous]

There are people with shockingly low expectations for someone purporting to do college level work in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people with shockingly low expectations for someone purporting to do college level work in this thread.

Sure, but let’s see the papers this instructor scored highly. I suspect they are all garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are people with shockingly low expectations for someone purporting to do college level work in this thread.

Suspecting the professor responded with emotion is not the same thing as having low expectations for students.

I have high expectations for students AND professors.

Sure, the student’s paper is poorly written, but the professor doesn’t get a pass here. The response IS emotional, vaguely referencing “countless” studies and misconstruing the students’ use of “demonic.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Did you read her essay and the rubric?

It was terribly written and embarrassingly piss poor work for a college junior. There is some reasonable speculation she did this deliberately to go crying to the media.

You can read it here: https://archive.is/LT0r1

It absolutely deserved a zero. Runon sentences, repetitive, lack of any sources, didn't address the question.

NP. Somehow I suspect that an equally badly written essay that made nonsensical progressive points that agreed with the instructor’s positions would not have received a zero.

If the student submitted an "Well actually, psychology says God is wrong" essay as a reaction essay to a Bible passage in seminary, she'd get a 0.

Why go to a secular college if you already read the only book you need for life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a biologist and I agree with the graduate student that sex is not binary nor fixed.

However, I think that if the word count was correct and she met the deadline, and since she did produce thoughts that loosely tied to the topic, she should have earned a very minimal amount of points. A failing grade, given the low quality of the work. But not zero. Zero flies in the face of the rubric.

There is a significant minority of biologists who do believe that sex is binary and fixed (e.g. https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/why-there-are-exactly-two-sexes ).

[Anonymous]

Oklahoma (motto: "50th in Education, because our schools chief watches porn in his office") University rules that "God ate my homework and I handed in His vomit" is valid excuse for not do homework, and will fire any lecturer who does not accept that.


https://www.kswo.com/2025/12/22/ou-finishes-religious-discrimination-essay-investigation-removes-ta-duties/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oklahoma (motto: "50th in Education, because our schools chief watches porn in his office") University rules that "God ate my homework and I handed in His vomit" is valid excuse for not do homework, and will fire any lecturer who does not accept that.

https://www.kswo.com/2025/12/22/ou-finishes-religious-discrimination-essay-investigation-removes-ta-duties/

Actually both TAs gave her a zero but only the trans one got fired. She’s also giving interviews about how she didn’t read the material that the assignment was responding to and threw the paper together in a half an hour.

[Anonymous]

She didn't cite the Bible passages that shaped her views or that support her contention that kids would be better of without lies that nonbinary is ok.

It's like me saying Trump policies are bad "because Constitution." Or "because Jesus disagrees."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She didn't cite the Bible passages that shaped her views or that support her contention that kids would be better of without lies that nonbinary is ok.

It's like me saying Trump policies are bad "because Constitution." Or "because Jesus disagrees."

This. I find it hard to believe that her grade would be so low if she had critically engaged with the material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Okla college student protesting against getting 0 for her personal religious opinion submitted as a Psychology course essay.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/samantha-fulnecky-ou-oklahoma-bible-essay-online-debate/87553019007/

Should religious faith be allowed as the sole authority for work in science class?

Did you read her essay and the rubric?

It was terribly written and embarrassingly piss poor work for a college junior. There is some reasonable speculation she did this deliberately to go crying to the media.

You can read it here: https://archive.is/LT0r1

It absolutely deserved a zero. Runon sentences, repetitive, lack of any sources, didn't address the question.

NP. Somehow I suspect that an equally badly written essay that made nonsensical progressive points that agreed with the instructor’s positions would not have received a zero.

I suspect that you suspect such a thing because you believe in God.