Sorry, but I disagree with on pretty much everything. What you shouldn't forget is that you just came back and that a lot of things changed. You're projecting the things how the were when you were a sensei on the present, with other words you're being anachronistic. Times change.
I especially don't agree on the part of training everyone who asks, seriously then you're driving the sensei's to madness and suicide. Not to long ago people spammed all the sensei's, mods and admins profiles for training, even me while I'm not a sensei. It became such a big problem that Rei herself installed a rule it was forbidden to spam their profiles with such requests.
Only the fact that Rei did that, you should imagine how big an issue this was.
The sensei's have all the right to decline students if they have to many.
I can agree if you say that it's ridiculous if sensei's are going to ask for a test to learn fire, that's just stupid. But you haven't given any examples and the way you're talking about it you can it interpretate it in many ways. For instance the sensei can ask for him to show his skills, not as a test but to see how good he is. That way he can determine how he can teach him. People that are new will need more guidance than people that already learned a few elements.
Also it can be seen as a trick to decline people. When someone spams your profile with 20 messages after each other, you don't get really motived to train them. Saying that they have to take a test is just another way to say no as most of the people who spam like that are the ones who are the worst at RP and don't listen too. You can hardly blame them for that.
It's possible there's a single person who actually really asks for such things, however if it's one or so and the majority is good then you're making an unjust globalisation.
Another point is that you're laying way to much emphasis on quantity and not much on quality. Sensei's should train as much people as they can, but they have to teach them well. If you're training to much, the quality of the teaching will drop and that will lead to a lot of problems in the arena. In that case you can better decline people.
I am most certainly not speaking anachronistically. I'm speaking from the point of view of a person who's just returned, yes. I didn't want to say this, but to me, NB's rp appears to be in shambles. There aren't enough senseis, there are too many students lacking basic training, and the few senseis that exist are, aside from a few outstanding ones, not pulling their weight. NB's rp is a joke of what it once was, and to me, an experienced rp-er, this is a way to both inspire the senseis to do more work and to improve the status of the members lacking training without asking too much.
The only reason that students spam sensei profiles for training is because they NEED training. Their needs cant just be dismissed as spam, and their dismissal as such has resulted in the rp's current state. It appears to me that rather than give those students training or at least give some of those students training, the senseis essentially said "stfo", and forgot about them.
Being annoyed by a student is no reason to disregard them. In fact, being annoyed by a student should inspire motivation on the sensei's part. The sensei should be inspired to teach the student the values of patience and respect. The more errors in the student's behavior, the more room for improvement, and the more to teach.
If a sensei has to decline a student teaching because they already have too many people to teach, even if they would only teach the would-be student a single jutsu for a single day, that indicates a more severe problem. That means there are either too many students or not enough dedicated senseis. The solution to the first scenario would be to approve more senseis, likely through a slight change in sensei requirements. I'm operating through the second scenario, that not enough senseis are pulling their weight. That can be changed by requiring senseis to teach students basic techniques. If you are telling me that the first scenario is the case, then i will gladly start another suggestion thread about the sensei rules, but until then, i see my solution as the only option that's been printed so far.
There's obviously a problem. Frankly, you all seem to be trying harder to prove me wrong thayou are trying to actually solve the problem. If you disagree with my solution, come up with a better one. The fact that you all haven't actually come up with another better solution leads me to believe that either you don't believe there's a problem (which there is, which has been proven by your claims that dozens of students spam the profiles of senseis), or that you don't want to go through the work of actually solving the problem. Either way, my solution remains the only solution, and thus the best solution.
Perhaps, though, my idea is too harsh. In that case, i would be glad to tweak it. Perhaps we can find common ground and compromise. Let's stop saying that my idea is bad, and start making it better through suggestions, shall we? After all, this is our forum, so the ideas should come from us, not just from one person with his own individual opinions.