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If you’ve been wandering around on any social media channels over the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably seen the polemical posts about Samantha Fulnecky, the University of Oklahama student who got a 0 on her response essay because she turned in an opinion piece instead of an academic response with proper citation.
I had a whole post planned about this under the impression that Ms. Fulnecky was a freshman. After nearly twenty years of teaching freshmen, I could 100% see this scenario unfolding. My take: the child headed off to the U of O having been thoroughly warned about the godlessness of a secular university and her responsibility to uphold Biblical truth. I’ve taught those kids. It takes them at least a semester to realize that we, the professors, generally aren’t out to sabotage their faith. (I say generally as I can’t speak to all motivations, but in the English department at William & Mary, we were mostly just trying to teach them close reading and decent writing.) Coming into a class with all of your defenses firmly in place is not the best posture for learning; I’ve gotten my share of freshman essays that footnote the Bible instead of dealing with the text.
And there would have been shared responsibility. It seemed that the TA grading the paper was too inexperienced to react properly—which would have been to invite the student to office hours and say, “You misunderstood the assignment. Let’s go over the criteria again and I’ll give you a chance to rewrite the paper. I’ll have to take one letter grade off for lateness, but you can still get a good grade if you’re willing to put in the work.” I’ve done this as well.
So that was going to be my post.
Then, doing a little fact checking before hitting “send,” I found out that Ms. Fulnecky is a junior psychology major.
A junior, taking a class in her major field, who turns in a completely inappropriate paper should absolutely expect to get a failing grade. She knows the expectations by year 3 of her college career.
I can’t speak to Ms. Fulnecky’s motivations any more than I can absolve all of my fellow professors of intending to indoctrinate. But the *appearance* here is certainly that she chose a class in which the TA was transgender (something which doesn’t actually have anything to do with whether the rubric was properly applied) in order to make a point. Which she did. The TA has been put on administrative leave and Ms. Fulnecky is being praised by TPUSA, among other conservative Christian organizations, for her bravery.
Higher education has its problems. This is not the way to address them.
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@GabeGwoolley It was all opinion, not a reaction to the piece. Additionally, both instructors gave their reasoning for the poor grade, so the student could learn from this, which is the point of education, yeah? This has been blown out of proportion in every way!