Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The University of Oklahoma relieved a raduate teaching assistant of her teaching responsibilities after a student disputed her grade on an essay about gender roles.
The state university initially put the instructor, Mel Curth, on administrative leave. Then, on Monday announced she would no longer teach at the school.
School officials said in a statement that Curth "was arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper." They didn't elaborate.
The university said in the statement that it "believes strongly in both its faculty's rights to teach with academic freedom and integrity and its students' right to receive an education that is free from a lecturer's impermissible evaluative standards. We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think."
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