Dire News At The Door ((Open For All Reactions))

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Mrs. Mary MacNeilly's report to the New York State Education Department was far from glowing. Her report caused a lot more concern and shock than normal process usually allowed. They did their research on previous inspections just to see how long this mutant school problem had been going on. Despite their research showing there had never been an issue as large as what was put before them, they had to take action on what Mrs. MacNeilly had reported.

The NYSED informed the superintendent in the district Xavier's was located in of the issue. They also got in touch with Westchester County's office about Xavier's certificate of occupancy due to the structural damage Mrs. MacNeilly had witnessed happening to the school building. With the report of mutants on the grounds the state and county governments got their information squared away before sending representatives to the school with protection from law enforcement. Child Protective Services got into the loop after being informed of a young girl living at the school surrounded by mutants who quite possibly could not control their powers.

As the media got wind of what was coming to a quiet yet secretive school in upstate New York, TV stations sent crews out. Some of the government representatives were glad to talk vaguely about what was happening at the school live. With the cameras aimed to put the people going into the school on film, a TV reporter stepped into the frame.

"This is Samantha Boulevard here not far from the town of Salem Center in Westchester County. Government officials from the New York State Education Department are here delivering a notice of probation for the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. The school came under scrutiny recently during an inspection by a certified educational inspector. My sources have told me that this school poses as a private institution for education but has been revealed to be habitat for mutants."

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The Announcement

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The Professor wheeled his way on to the steps of his home, looking out over the assembled crowd of reporters, aware that the eyes of the world were on him. He took a breath to steady himself, then began to speak.

"My name is Charles Xaiver," he began. "For nearly forty years, I have been the headmaster of this school, first as a School for Gifted Youngsters, and then as the Xaivier Institute when it became necessary to transform into something more. Among my former students are such luminaries as Doctor Henry McCoy, Katherine Pryde-Wisdom, and Alex Summers. Many more of my former students returned to this place after their graduation, to raise families, and to help guide the next generation of students.

For all of those forty years, this school has been exclusive, looking for gifted students that it could help guide toward making the world a better place. And I would like to believe they have.

You also know that I am considered one of the world's leading experts on mutation, alongside Doctor MacTaggert and Doctor McCoy. I have been an outspoken proponent of Mutant Rights, and debated vigorously with Senator Kelly about the ills of subjugating mutants to the kinds of prejudices and regulations this country had otherwise long left behind. I have made it my life's work, along with educating young people, to see that all people, regardless of what gifts nature has bestowed upon them, are treated as equals by their fellow man.

For all those years, I have sought to keep my students safe in whatever ways I could. I have sought to keep the world safe, from those who would do it harm.

My name is Charles Xaiver... and I am a mutant. And this school was founded with the purpose of finding mutants and offering them the opportunity to control their gifts and use them for the betterment of mankind. To that end, I took my original class of students and formed them into the team the world knows as the X-Men.

I take no shame in that I have kept these things a secret, only regret that the secrecy went on for so long, because they were necessary to protect the people I cared for and those who were my responsibility to protect. But circumstances have forced my hand.

Moreover, it is a changing world. The number of mutants has expanded to a level I would never have dreamed of all those years ago. And new threats still remain throughout the world, like that misguided young woman claiming kinship to Magneto.

This is a school and so shall it always be. Let all mutants know, that if you desire it, you have a home here. Let my home, as it has always been, be a safe haven for mutants, and an example of all of us, human and mutant, working together for a better tomorrow."