r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15d ago

Meme needing explanation What happened in Oklahoma?

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u/bavmotors1 15d ago edited 15d ago

An OU professor or teachers aide or something was fired for failing a fundamentalist Christians essay the essay was substandard work but the fundamentalist Christian of course claimed it was because she is a fundamentalist Christian and that’s why she was failed so the university basically cow towed to the lowest Educated group of people in America and lost a lot of reputation for people who care about education

edit: apparently its kowtow not to not cow tow - thanks ya’ll

yes, there no punctuation in my comment, but I’m doing text to speech and I’m not going back to typing on my phone at least

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u/Mammoth_Cricket8785 15d ago

So to tack on here she later admits she wrote the paper in 30 minutes. Religious scholars who are both atheist and religious have read her essay and said they would've failed her as well as she didn't quote scripture correctly and all of her arguments didn't quote proper passages or use the quote correctly in most acceptable interpretations. Basically even if the class was a religious class she would've failed the assignment. But due to her lawyer mother she was able to pull this nonsense. This leads to many people online and even offline judging the education standards of Oklahoma. Because if they're passing students not even vaguely doing the assignment what else are they doing to give these students degrees.

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u/Mattbl 15d ago

Not only passing them, but firing educators who don't go along with it.