This kid is not troubled. He has a learning issue. Just like my son.
A learning issue? When there's no father in the home, it seems that OFTEN that male children have no father figure, and move to "learning issues" today.
Military Service used to be a great discipline, self-respect, self-reliance, meaningful-member-of-a-team building exercise. With the Agenda put into the military today, I just do not know if that's still true but my experience in the past in the Military showed MANY "learning difficulty" and/or "troubled" yewts being made into men.
You have to have been there (in the old military) to appreciate the environment and discipline, or have seen it in someone you know and how they changed for the better.
Might not be a learning issue. Might be a learning style issue. Schools are geared to teaching boys like girls, and some boys can’t learn that way.