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The University of Oklahoma announced on Monday that it had dismissed a graduate teaching assistant who gave a student a zero on a psychology essay.
In a psychology assignment that was supposed to be about gender roles, OU junior Samantha Fulnecky based her arguments on the Bible and called the idea that there were more than two genders “demonic,” according to a local ABC News affiliate. The TA argued that the student did not answer the assignment questions and opted to use “personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class.”
The student, who received a zero out of 25 points on the essay, claimed the grade was religious discrimination, prompting a university investigation. On Monday, OU announced that the TA would "no longer have instructional duties at the University."
