Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170211023835/@comment-734582-20170216083239

Bad phrasing on my part. What i meant is, he was never selected as a teacher because he's such a good teacher. it seems to me that Konoha's teaching program revolves around taking well-performing ninja and sticking genin teams to them in the hopes they learn something. Kakashi isn't a teacher because he wants to or because he's good at it. Kakashi, as a jonin, is assigned the head of a 4-man cell because it's his turn, because it comes with the job.

You can't convince me that a guy who sets an impossibly high and unfair standard for his students on their very first test and is perpetually late, really wanted to be a teacher. Just as a reminder, it's the entire point of the 4-man teams to learn teamwork. The anime is less subtle about this, as they literally had the 3rd Hokage assign him a teacher to soften him. So in the anime, he was literally ordered to look after kids.

Can Konoha's teaching methods be improved? Certainly. Is Kakashi a teacher? I'd say he's more of a babysitter (or, if you will, genin-sitter).