Quote Originally Posted by ppo2_diver View Post
Let me play devils advocate as I'm not a cave instructor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. Standards are really the minimum that should be taught. So, if a student is shown the standards and the instructor sticks to them, does that mean the class was taught with the minimum in mind? The really great classes I've had, my instructors did show me the standards, but then went into detail about what was expected of me when performing said standards and didn't add anything really new above that.

But on the flip side, if an instructor starts doing things that are not part of the standards, how are students to know if the instructor is going above and beyond to add value or possibly doing something that comes close to crossing a line in regards to safety/standards violations? I.e. they don't know what they don't know.
Good questions.

I would suspect that the standards if shown would need to be explained, and the skills that the instructor intends to teach that exceed them explained as well.