User blog comment:Jet Becker/Is anybody else off McCoy?/@comment-3277907-20120111194216/@comment-4750091-20120111233040

hear hear- i'm over wolverine too and never really liked him in the first place. it seems like a reall drastic character flip for him to be so unrealistic about the fact that young mutants are going to be attacked, etc. And how the hell is he going to be a teacher/headmaster?! (I say as a high school teacher myself- it's not easy!)

I think he has a point that students shouldn't be groomed as soldiers and that they should be given the pportunity to develop other skills or careers for everyday life- but why not have a compramise with Scott? surely they could have placed more focus on the core pedagogical aspect of the students' lives on Utopia rather than up and leaving for the East Coast again... I mean- some Private schools have military programmes (cadets or whatever it's called) that are compulsory for all students- it's just so unreasonable to expect students to think they're not targets. That's simply the hand they've been dealt. And whilst you can try (as both Scott and Logan have/do) to protect them- there is no denying that sooner or later they are going to be faced with war/death/etc on their own.