From Fox News: Weeks after a University of Oklahoma student’s story about being flunked on a paper that touted her Christian faith caused a viral uproar, the teaching assistant behind the grade has been fired.
“Based on an examination of the graduate teaching assistant’s prior grading standards and patterns, as well as the graduate teaching assistant’s own statements related to this matter, it was determined that the graduate teaching assistant was arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper,” the state’s flagship school said in a Monday evening statement. “The graduate teaching assistant will no longer have instructional duties at the University.”
Samantha Fulnecky, a junior at the school, received zero out of 25 on an assignment in which she referenced the Bible after graduate teaching assistant William “Mel” Curth, who uses she/they pronouns, scored the paper.
The teaching assistant tasked Fulnecky and her classmates with writing a response to a scholarly article titled “Relations Among Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence,” which discusses results of a study about gender norms among middle schoolers and the social ramifications children may face for not conforming to gender norms.
The “woke assignment” asked students to provide a “thoughtful discussion of some aspect of the article.”
Fulnecky did provide a thoughtful discussion, citing the book Genesis from the Bible, in which God created men and women equally, but with separate purposes.
Fulnecky also described the promotion of nonbinary gender identification as “demonic.”
Objecting to her Biblical viewpoint, Curth gave her a “zero” grade on the assignment, and claimed that Fulnecky’s writing “heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive.”
The University of Oklahoma has now sided with the student and fired the woke teaching assistant.
BREAKING: The University of Oklahoma announced that it has ruled in FAVOR of the student who was discriminated against for quoting the Bible in an assignment to justify traditional gender roles.
The transgender instructor will also “no longer have instructional duties at the… https://t.co/Vy7G7WskjG pic.twitter.com/0AmI53qCgi
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 22, 2025
For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.
In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be… pic.twitter.com/R3J4FaGEtw
— TPUSA_OU (@TurningPointOU) November 27, 2025
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