The Poor Scholar's Soliloquy

This article seems to touch on the fact that everyone excels in different areas, and these areas may not be found in the conventional classroom. I found it interesting that the author wrote that he found it impossible to memorize the presidents, but yet he knew the number of 26 American trucks. This shows that he is very intelligent, but is not able to show it in a classroom manner.
He seems to be lacking support from his teachers, ignoring him in science class or telling him that he is not a good citizen if he does not learn the Articles of Confederation.
He does not write in a standard accepted English, which shows that he may have difficulties in many classes if he has poor English skills.
He won't do something or doesn't feel that he can do something unless he sees the relevance of it.

In today's world I would not encourage him to drop out of school. There are now vocational education options to which he could turn where he could learn to work on automobiles.