[sausageseller]

The class is for learning how to make ceramic stuff. Crosses aren’t as complicated apparently as the course curriculum would like. Nothing wrong with crosses but the next step would be to make a flat pancake and call it a masterpiece. The guy really needs to try harder and do a better job. Making crosses is one way to get out of doing any substantial work.

Yea pots and tiles are so much more "substantial".

[Vanders9]

So, simply make the cross more substantial. There are hundreds of different styles, and they are not all as simple as the Latin cross.