Actually, he sounds interesting. If he pulled something like this in the US he would be famous by now.
"Then, of course, there was the scene in math class, when Grassl walked up to the chalkboard to prove to his teacher that he had just miscalculated. One classmate said his confidence came across like snobbishness.
At the start of 12th grade, he translated a magazine into Latin -- the music charts, the ads, everything -- just for fun. "
He was a bright kid, whose energies lost focus, and apparently his brightness went unappreciated.