Fair enough. I should have taken responsibility and gone somewhere else when I realised that neither teacher was helping. I did eventually figure that out, but it took too long.
"Bizarre just might mean they don't understand what the lessons were trying to accomplish. That's not saying they're incompetent, they're just from different schools of vocal teaching and might be used to different exercises."
Definitely, but this was SLS vs SS, and those two schools are quite similar. However if the exercises were accomplishing something, I would have accomplished something. I now believe that a singing teacher should be able to get you on the right path towards your goal within a lesson. Otherwise they're not a good teacher. Making cat noises for a year takes you nowhere.