User blog comment:Johnnybravo44/Wolverine & the X-Men Vol 1 1 review by Johnnybravo44/@comment-3034314-20111028002755

My guess is the reason they wanted to do a school setting is because that way they can get the best of both worlds. With Cyclops you've got X-Men the team and with Wolverine you've got X-Men the school. That's why Cyclops got most of the X-Men and Wolverine got the students.