The paper is of low quality, indeed. However the marking criteria allowed for surface level, values based reflections on the resource. While writing god and jesus a million times is low effort, it still is within the bounds for the task. Implying other motivations to fail her.
Why American Students Can't Read: A Short Story in Four Acts
Act I
Three researchers conduct a reading experiment at two American universities.
They give students a simple paragraph from Charles Dickens' famous novel Bleak House and ask them to explain it.
Students can use dictionaries and online resources if they want to look up meanings of difficult words.
Out of 85 students, 49 can't comprehend a single thing.
Only 4 out of 85 students understand the paragraph, but only on a literal level.
The paper gets frequently discussed on social media. Everybody laments the declining reading standards in American students.
Act II
An award-winning teacher at an American university assigns their psychology class an essay on the relationship between gender and psychology.
The teacher asks the class to read the essay and write a thoughtful response to the paper.
One of the students reads the essay but can't comprehend a single thing.
Nonetheless, she goes ahead and writes her essay that says, God is Godly, man is manly, and woman is womanly, and the Bible is, of course, biblical.
The student submits the essay. The teacher grades her paper zero out of 25.
The student asks for reevaluation of her essay. The second teacher teaching course agrees with the first teacher's assessment.
The student feels wronged.
Act III
In a social media post, a conservative pressure group criticizes the professor for giving the essay a zero.
The students, the group says, should not receive a zero for saying God is Godly, man is manly, woman is woman, and the Bible is, of course, biblical.
The pressure group's post goes viral, and it becomes national and then international news.
The university places the award-winning teacher on administrative leave and launches a formal investigtion.
Act IV
The university fires the award-winning teacher.
The university agrees that no one should receive a zero for saying God is Godly, man is manly, woman is woman, and the Bible is, of course, biblical.
Epilogue
It's the year of our Lord 2050.
Three researchers conduct a reading experiment at two American universities.
They students simply can't read a thing, they conclude.
It becomes a matter of national emergency.
The US government launches a new visa type: the Reading visa inviting people with advanced reading skills from all over the world.
$500,000 a year for teaching American students reading comprehension.
The plan fails.
Nobody even applies for the Reading visa.
One of the requirements for getting the visa is to write a response paper on why God is Godly, man is manly, woman is woman, and why the Bible is, of course, biblical.