A professor at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, Calif., is giving her students extra credit for attending events that favor her political views.
Anthropology 102 professor Alexis Tucker-Sade gave her students a few options this semester to earn extra credit, including attending an "LGBT-ed Talks" event featuring a drag show and “dance sets.”
Students could also attend a lecture on climate change or a social justice symposium.
In order to receive extra credit, students needed to attend an event for a minimum of two hours and write a report on what they learned.
“For this course, the extra credit option is to attend one campus event related to topics we have covered or that are important,” Tucker-Sade wrote to her students in a post obtained by Campus Reform. “You will need to attend the event for at least two hours and then write up a one-page typed report on what you learned and how it related to the course.”
Some students in her class found the extra credit options unfair and prejudiced. One student told Campus Reform that the teacher was forcing “her political views on the class.”
“It isn’t fair that conservative students have a teacher that forces her political views on the class,” the student said.
Tucker-Sade encouraged her students to attend the LGBT-ed Talks event in particular, saying that she would personally be attending.
The event featured 10-12 minute talks that focused "on all LGBT topics and issues i.e. hetero-normative sexual education, the importance of a Pride center on campus, internalized homophobia, and much more."
There were also "drag performances and other forms of artistic expression," the event description read.
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