Jack Struggles

With 3 days of school down for this week I have had to speak to the SPED teacher at Cedar Middle School on all three days.  I am really hoping that we don't have to make it a fourth tomorrow.  The first day, Tuesday, she was concerned about Jack going to see Hamlet with the 6th grade at Utah Shakespeare Festival.  In addition she told me that Jack was having some issues with the Greek packet.  They are learning about Greek Mythology and Jack isn't having any of it. He doesn't want to hear about all these false gods, he's a Mormon and wants nothing to do with it.  Besides that they don't have any clothes on in their pictures.  I'm not certain what kind of pictures they are showing these days. Anyhow, he was fine to go to the concert and we talked about the Greek Mythology stuff.  The next day, Wednesday, I got a call, he did fine at the play but had a major melt down when they got back to school and started on the Greek Mythology stuff again.  He made his position very clear and was determined not to participate in the subject.  I said I would talk to him again. Yesterday we had a conversation and Jack was still strongly positioned that this teaching was against his religion and he didn't want to participate.  We talked about it further and I said two things to him that seemed to get him past it.  The first thing I said was learning about Greek Mythology doesn't make you a bad Mormon.  Then I asked him about mythology and what a myth was. He knows myths well having watched every episode of Myth Busters at least once and several of them multiple times.  He reminds me every time if something I say was a myth that was busted by the myth busters.  Anyway, he was good and was determined to push through it without further complaint.  What was my surprise when I got another call this afternoon.  Greek Mythology went just fine today but a video they watched on Martin Luther King, Jr. was very upsetting to him.  He told me it scared him.  He had a little melt down over that.  Well, we talked again tonight and he seems to be okay.  He assured me that there will be no phone calls tomorrow.  It will be wonderful to finish the week off strong.