Thanks AvaCado (and others). I guess I just need to find a balance. I do wish that he had someone in the school that can bear some of the "burden" (not sure if that's the right word). I'm going to show the teacher the map he drew of the Black Sea area tomorrow at his conference and see what she says. It's possible that she has no idea what is going on, although that would be odd because he was dragging a War Encyclopedia around everywhere, including school, for a few weeks. If she is clueless after that, I guess that's proof that he's just a warm body collecting tax revenue.
