Hank says that the school fell apart after Charles’s proteges started getting drafted.
The Vietnam War draft lottery began in December of 1969. (The draft was in effect before that, but the numbers were relatively small, and for various reasons it seems unlikely the draft would have hit the Xavier school hard before that point.)
That means that Charles Xavier was not sitting out the fight for ten years. It seems he spent the ’60s recovering from his spinal cord injury and starting a school for mutant youth, which probably fell apart in ‘70.
Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Accords seen in DOFP took place in January of 1973. So Charles’s years of inaction were probably just 1970, ‘71 and ‘72. Still a long time to drop out... but it’s not ten years.
Personally I just feel like taking Charles entirely out of action for longer than that is character assassination. I know Charles has lost hope, he's depressed and addicted, and as a person with depression I know it can eat years of your life at a time. But it's really hard to see Charles as heroic or even decent if he spends years on end sitting on top of several billion dollars' worth of resources and not putting any of it to use to help people.
Unless you headcanon that after Moira quit the CIA and came back to get her memories back after the mindwipe they had BOTH AGREED ON-- Charles hired Moira to manage the estate and put the money to work for mutantkind, which is an idea I am adopting: now.
DOFP Backstory Timeline
Hank says that the school fell apart after Charles’s proteges started getting drafted.
The Vietnam War draft lottery began in December of 1969. (The draft was in effect before that, but the numbers were relatively small, and for various reasons it seems unlikely the draft would have hit the Xavier school hard before that point.)
That means that Charles Xavier was not sitting out the fight for ten years. It seems he spent the ’60s recovering from his spinal cord injury and starting a school for mutant youth, which probably fell apart in ‘70.
Meanwhile, the Paris Peace Accords seen in DOFP took place in January of 1973. So Charles’s years of inaction were probably just 1970, ‘71 and ‘72. Still a long time to drop out... but it’s not ten years.
Personally I just feel like taking Charles entirely out of action for longer than that is character assassination. I know Charles has lost hope, he's depressed and addicted, and as a person with depression I know it can eat years of your life at a time. But it's really hard to see Charles as heroic or even decent if he spends years on end sitting on top of several billion dollars' worth of resources and not putting any of it to use to help people.
Unless you headcanon that after Moira quit the CIA and came back to get her memories back after the mindwipe they had BOTH AGREED ON-- Charles hired Moira to manage the estate and put the money to work for mutantkind, which is an idea I am adopting: now.