NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) — A former University of Oklahoma graduate teaching assistant submitted her appeal of the University’s Institutional Equity Office, which found her grading “arbitrary,” on Tuesday, after a student received a failing grade on their essay.
The student, Samantha Fulnecky, filed a complaint with the university claiming religious discrimination after the Bible was mentioned in the turned-in assignment.
The paper was assigned on gender roles in society, and Fulnecky included her religious beliefs.
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However, the teaching assistant, Mel Curth, says the failing grade was not given because of Fulnecky’s personal beliefs, but because the paper did not answer the assignment’s questions or follow the rubric…