OzeEssay: The Zero That Cost Everyone Something The Quiet Classroom Moment That Stopped Being Quiet November 2025, University of Oklahoma. A junior named Samantha Fulnecky opens her laptop, writes 682 words, hits submit, and unintentionally lights a match that is still burning a month later. What the Paper Actually Said (verbatim excerpts) “The authors act like feeling different is automatically bad, but only because society has rejected God’s binary creation order.” “Identifying as anything other than male or female is not ‘brave’—it is a demonic deception that leads kids into confusion and despair.” “Mental health improves when we repent and align with how God made us, not when we enable rebellion.” Ends with a direct prayer: “Lord, give us courage to speak Your truth in love.” The Instructor’s Exact Feedback (released December 5) Mel Curth wrote only three sentences in the comment box: This is a psychology course, not a theology course. Calling LGBTQ+ existence “demonic” is hostile speech that violates the university’s inclusive-environment policy. Zero earned; no re-write offered. The Real Timeline Nobody Disputes Day 0 (Nov 14): Paper submitted Day 4: Zero posted Day 6: Fulnecky shares redacted screenshots with TPUSA OU Day 7: TPUSA posts them publicly and tags Curth by full name Day 8: First death threat arrives in Curth’s inbox Day 12: Curth goes on paid leave; campus police escort required Day 20: $200k+ raised for Fulnecky, $120k+ for Curth Day 27 (Dec 11): Still no public comment from the professor of record, only from the TA and the student Three Undeniable Facts The assignment never required outside sources and explicitly invited personal reaction. The word “demonic” made civil grading impossible once the TA’s own identity was involved. Doxxing the instructor turned a grading disagreement into a security crisis. What Each Side Quietly Knows Fulnecky’s supporters admit (off the record) the paper wasn’t A-level scholarship. Curth’s defenders admit (off the record) that a secular student writing “religion is a psychotic delusion” would probably have received a warning, not an automatic zero. Where It’s Probably Headed The zero will be overturned or averaged into a gentleman's C as part of a confidential settlement by February 2026. OU will rewrite every social-science syllabus to eliminate open-ended “personal reaction” assignments. Both Fulnecky and Curth will write books (hers with a Christian publisher, theirs with an academic press) and speak on opposite conference circuits for years. The [OzeEssay](https://www.ozessay.com.au/) isn’t a simple morality play with heroes and villains. It’s what happens when a 20-year-old’s sincere conviction meets a 28-year-old’s lived identity in a room with no adults willing to mediate before the internet got involved. Everyone lost something: Samantha lost the illusion that campus is a safe place for unfiltered biblical worldview. Mel lost the ability to grade papers without armed security. The rest of us lost one more corner of higher education where students and teachers could disagree strenuously without becoming national enemies.