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Originally Posted by james0246
Let's be realistic here, Naruto is a Shounen series, so Kakashi's core job is to get his students stronger.
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he got them as strong as they needed to be for whatever part of the story they were in. all 3 of them passed the forest of death and then the elimination matches (in which sakura tied ino who you are putting on a pedestal above her). that's a better result than any of the other teachers. asuma, gai, kurenai, and even orochimaru's students all fared worse than kakashi's group. he then focused on sasuke because sakura was out, naruto had ebisu and then jiraiya and most importantly gaara was a fearsome competitor. it would have been bad teaching to not prepare sasuke as much as possible to fight gaara
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he did teach Naruto the secret of Kage Bushin (which he conceivably could have taught Naruto on their initial meeting rather than waiting two and a half years, but for whatever reason didn't)
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kakashi didnt teach naruto the kage bunshin memory trick right off the bat because kishi hadn't thought of it yet. it was clearly a retcon
as for sakura, that moreso falls under the 'useless girl' theme of naruto than it does kakashi's teaching. how can he teach someone who kishi has no intention of developing? her development during the sasori arc was clearly forced since she was quickly forgotten soon after. it was more of kishi saying he didnt forget about one of the 'main characters' and then he got tired of her really fast