Kakashi was a good sensei

1. He tried but failed... A good teacher would have lessons that sink in. If you go to class and all the time the teacher lectures and his students do not absorb the material is that teacher a good teacher? Of course not. There are no bad students just bad teachers. 2. The fact that his students got special training was not because Kakashi gave them abilities to appear special. Sakura just stopped learning from Kakashi and begged the 5th hokage to teach her medical ninjutsu because kakashi had no knowledge of it. Jiraiya always had a moral obligation to train and look after Naruto because of a promise he made to his former student the 4th hokage not because Kakashi did such a good job training Naruto. What exactly did Kakashi teach Sakura and Naruto to do before the Sannin even got to them? Kakashi did not teach Naruto the Rasengan, or how to properly control his chakra. Kakashi did not train Sakura medical ninjutsu or any kind of peculiar skill that would make the 5th hokage interested in her. A better example is a student going to a school with known low test scores and transferring to a school with a higher one. For example in San Francisco the most well known public school is Lowell High School it is highly regarded as the best high school in the Bay Area. Thurgood Marshall High School on the other hand is a poorly educated school with a high drop out rate and low test scores. Every year students can appeal to be transferred to a better high school if one chooses. Kakashi is Thurgood Marshall and the Sannin were Lowell High School, basically students got tired of not learning anything so they switched schools. 1) Kakashi's students are the most powerful, but not by his teachings. Naruto was able to beat Pein because he knew Sage mode and the Rasengan, both abilities are abilities Kakashi that Kakashi did not teach him. Sage mode was taught to Naruto by a old frog, and the Rasengan by Jiraiya. A FROG is a better teacher than Kakashi. Sasuke was able to kill Orochimaru because Orochimaru trained him so well in those last 3 years... teaching him how to perfect the Sharingan, perfecting the use of his elemental abilities, and Itachi gave him the Mangekyou Sharingan a power which enabled Sasuke to beat Danzo. Kakashi had nothing to do with the progress of Sasuke over the last 3 years heading towards the Shippuuden series. Sakura beat Sasori... again with abilities she learned from Tsunade NOT Kakashi. Basically to the time leading up to the Shippuuden series Kakashi did nothing for the progress of Sasuke, Sakura, and Naruto students he was assigned to teach but didn't. 4. None of his students passed the Chunin exams... -___- 5. Teamwork... is that why Naruto fights all his opponents alone like Pein and Kakuzu. Is that why Sasuke turned his back on his team and has decided that killing them has become his main goal? It cannot be called teaching if the students DO NOT LEARN. 6) he WANTED them to flee but eventually his students had to save his life. When Haku trapped Sasuke and Naruto in that glass technique, Sasuke almost died and Naruto was showing symptoms of becoming a fox. Kakashi was having a very long stalemate fight and convo with Zabuza, until he felt Naruto becoming a fox. When Kakashi felt the uneasiness of Naruto's chakra he quickly summoned dogs found Zabuza and used Chidori. I have a question for PRO why did Kakashi wait so long to use that strategy when the entire time he was playing sword stalemate and talking to Zabuza in the mist? His students almost died because Kakashi did not use his ace strategy sooner. Kakashi was a horrible sensei who did not teach any of his students the techniques they know today that makes them the most powerful characters in the series.