Okay, so I finished my round of threads, so I'll sit down and type my honest opinion about this whole deal.
I, personally, disagree with having senpais. Yes, I have one now, and that's Shinta, my man. By the way, he never asked to become my senpai, I personally approached him because I saw he could be a great sensei and wanted him to have some experience, because now, it seems that being a senpai is like the requirement to become a sensei, which I completely 100% disagree with.
Back then, there was no such thing as senpais. I'm not sure who or when it came up as a new system, but I see senpais as non-colored senseis. If you want to read everything I said about almost
two years ago about senpai, here it is.
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Gecko's main point here is that he believes the training is going slow, which is true - I myself have slowed down this past month (no excuse really, I have my times where I lose and gain interest in NB, and these two months, I've had school stress as well), and he believes that many of the senseis should take senpais that can help this, and make this a requirement.
I actually can't state whether it's right or wrong to do this, as there are both advantages and disadvantages to this, but the biggest issue here is whether the senpai will teach appropriately, or have enough experience to do so. Like I said earlier, if I offered all of you the chance to automatically master your techniques, more than 90%,
no, 99%, of you would take it. Senpais need to be monitored - they're basically the non-colored sensei that hasn't gone through the test yet.
Secondly, I've seen a lot of senseis take a senpai and only teach in Ninjutsu/Kenjutsu, and Genjutsu. This is
wrong. Senpais are not an excuse to slack off. I'd rather not there be senpais at all if this becomes a major issue. Senpais are not an excuse for senseis to be lazy. They should be actively monitoring and teaching themselves-....
Ah,
crap. Well, time to drive my pissed parents...I'm done here.