What classes does the Professor offer at his schools, anyway?
Apparently, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters offered an accredited high school equivalency degree for its privately enrolled students. The “graduates” could try for a higher degree, now that Xavier also has an Institute for Higher Learning, if it wasn’t for the fact that they’re really the X-Men, and usually have other things to do than cram for finals. Some X-Men have tried for higher degrees–Jean Grey went on to Metro University–but generally there wasn’t much higher learning going on at Xavier’s. Some of the older X-Men have served as “guest lecturers” to Generation X at the Massachusetts Academy, but it’s pretty likely that none of them has a teaching degree. Scenes from Claremont’s run on the New Mutants showed classes being held in world history, economics, and physical education (above and beyond Danger Room training). Presumably the classes in biology would be top-notch. Even when she was with the X-Men, Jubilee was shown studying algebra. Tom Galloway has more help: “It
