Xavier has recruited people with remarkable abilities. He still has to work out how to teach them to live and act together.

Xavier has recruited people with remarkable abilities. He still has to work out how to teach them to live and act together. The household in X-Men #96–100 is different from the original classroom. These recruits arrive with adult habits, loyalties and grievances. They are capable of making decisions he dislikes, and several are not especially interested in behaving like obedient children. The Danger Room exposes that immediately. A controlled setting can measure reactions, but it cannot guarantee restraint. If Wolverine is willing to hurt Kurt, the machinery has not solved the most important problem in the room. Xavier's telepathy remains invaluable when the threat is harder to understand. His contact with Kierrok identifies the link to the cairn and gives Storm a target that can end the attack. Knowing where to act matters as much as having the power to act there. At the same time, his own mind is under pressure. The recurring space-war nightmares in #97 disturb him enough that he leaves for a rest. His students must keep functioning while their teacher is dealing with something he cannot simply explain away. That absence allows other adults to matter. Moira looks after the school. Sean helps with the team. Peter Corbeau contributes the knowledge and access needed for the space rescue. The X-Men's support network is beginning to look larger than one man in one study. Lang eventually captures Xavier too. For all his planning and power, he can become one of the people who needs rescuing. The students cannot assume that the person who usually understands the danger will remain safely outside it. This is an early stage of the school's expansion into a community. Xavier remains its founder and mentor, but the work is already bigger than he can personally supervise, especially when he is part of the emergency.