When teachers are required to abide by standards created by their superiors, they do not always think twice about whether what they are teaching is genuinely fulfilling for their students education. Some teachers tend to view the standards as boxes, that once checked, indicate that their students have gained valuable knowledge.
The comic below demonstrates that although some visual arts standards are broad to invite creative lesson plan making for art teachers, it may also be misleading the child's value of education. Kitschy lessons strip away the opportunity for more advanced methods of viewing the world through an artistic lens. This satirical comic communicates that the overarching standard should be to create innovative thinkers and problem solvers as opposed to mundane followers.
