(May 7, 2015 at 11:36 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Hmm. I found the video on Microsoft Network.
Yes, but if you look at the video, you can see it is a Fox news story. This means that you also cannot trust Microsoft Network to tell you the truth, either, given that they would present such a story. I recommend you find another news source.
A good rule of thumb is, if you ever encounter what seems to be an outrageous story, do an online search to see what others have to say about the matter. Very often, outrageous stories are misrepresenting what is going on. Of course, "very often" does not mean "always." In this case, there are a bunch of pro-religion sites parroting the idea that religion is being attacked. If that were really the case, almost certainly the school would fall on the professor like a ton of bricks.
When something is a non-story, as appears to be the case here, one will not find many sources that will bother to tell you what is going on. But certain kinds of sites should be dismissed out of hand as being untrustworthy, such as religious sites for a story like this (or for pretty much anything, other than telling you what their official doctrine is).
Another rule of thumb is, whenever a student is complaining about a grade, it is usually that the student did not do the assignment satisfactorily, and wants to punish the teacher for the student's failure to do a good job. I have attended school myself, and I noticed many times that students who did crap work were unhappy about their grades, and wanted to 'get back at' the teacher. Of course, a rule of thumb is not an absolute rule, but it is what one should normally expect to be the case.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
