Schism was basically the continued evolution of Logan as elder statesman of the X-Men and true poster child for Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence
Wolverine has never been the poster child for Xavier's dream, even once. He's never even led the X-Men, or has contributed anything to the moral dilemma of the X-Men outside of being a combatant. He's almost always been the outsider, and during the Claremont Era, was usually the first one willing to take fatal measures. You could literally take a shot every time other characters had to hold him back from straight up killing the opponents they were up against, and him expressing disappointment or reluctance when he ultimately restrains himself. That's the polar opposite of Xavier's dream, and virtually nothing he does in his solo comics, or in the main ensemble titles in the 90's or 2000's changes that, or drops hints that he's changing to be more pacifistic like Xavier. I have no idea where that started for
Schism to continue from--it just comes out of left field. Just like everything else from that retarded fucking story arc.
with Logan being the one who calls out that Scott was using emotionally damaged kids as child soldiers
You mean like the New Mutants? Which Logan helped mentor himself?
Twice?
Something Scott was already getting shit over with X-Force due to Logan being explicitly pissed that Scott forced him against his will to take on Warpath, Wolfsbane, and X23 onto Logan's wetworks team.
That would only be valid if most of those characters being on the X-Force were at all relevant to the conflict of
Schism....and it isn't. Warpath and Wolfsbane aren't children...they're adults. Wolfsbane was already established as a grown woman in the 2000's
New Mutants comics (which you can even see in the way she interacts with the new characters of that book), and Warpath, well...if you wanna argue that a 7-foot tall 350lbs Native American behemoth can be classified as a "child", you're certainly welcome to. The reason why their inclusion is at all a point of contention is the trauma both of them have suffered in the past--Rahne with her wolf powers, Warpath with the death of his older brother. Logan says all of this in the first issue of the series, and also hints that he wants to shield them from the world of killing that comes with the black ops nature of X-Force's missions. That just leaves X23, and Logan's initial protest to her being on the team wasn't that she was too young, but because he wasn't convinced she had the agency to decide for herself as a sheltered lab experiment ("She doesn't know how to choose" is the exact phrase he uses). The only character who qualifies as a child is Elixir, and even then, not only is he barely older than any of the New Mutants characters being recruited by Cable for the original X-Force (which I guess Logan slept through when it comes to his penchant against "child soldiers), but Elixir also elected to take every measure to make sure his time on X-Force wouldn't corrupt or change him as a person, in a move that impresses Logan so much that
he himself says that he wants Elixir to stay on the team.
Now, you can argue that's a problem, but that still only amounts to one actual child being on X-Force, which flies in the face of
Schism trying to make it sound like Scott recruiting children is some kind of widespread problem. But of course, Jason Aaron didn't read any of that shit when he concocted the main premise for
Scism, and suddenly Wolverine's entire raison d'etre.
I'd be shocked if he was even aware that Cable had more children on his initial X-Force Team than Cyclops recruited in any of the field teams during the Decimation Era.
W&TX brought back the school
Both
New Mutants (Vol 2) and
New X-Men Academy X brought back the school before Aaron. And did it better.
Both times.
