[AnAmericanMother]

Internal evidence that the problem was not the lack of complexity in the product: the professor comparing the cross to a swastika.

That means he was concerned about the ideological/philosophical content of the product, NOT that it was too simple to fulfill the course requirements.

Had he been concerned about that, he would have used your comparison to a "pancake".

That convinces me that this is a religious freedom issue, not a course requirements issue. The latter is simply a smoke screen invented by the administration (or their lawyer, as in, "You guys had better dream up a bona fide reason for this tout suite . . . or you're TOAST!")

[Richard Kimball]

Speaking as a Fine Arts major, ceramics is a joke class. NOBODY fails fine arts classes, and ceramics classes are the equivalent of summer camp cr@p. Nobody, and I mean nobody in a community college ceramics class is doing anything other than playing.

Many people take these courses to make gifts for friends.

This was an instructor who thought he'd shove a kid around to push his personal agenda and was surprised when the kid pushed back.