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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Dec 3, 2025, 08:47 PM Dec 3

Oklahoma college student's failing grade on gender essay dropped amid outcry [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Higher Education

Oklahoma college student’s failing grade on gender essay dropped amid outcry

The student said the score reflected religious discrimination after she cited the Bible in a psychology class paper

December 3, 2025 at 6:41 p.m. EST


The University of Oklahoma has placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student alleged religious discrimination after receiving a failing grade on an essay. (Brett Deering/Getty Images)

By Niha Masih and Susan Svrluga

The University of Oklahoma assured a student that her final grade won’t be affected by the zero she got for an essay on gender, a score that prompted religious discrimination allegations and inflamed the heated cultural debate on American college campuses.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/12/03/oklahoma-university-gender-bible/

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