Struggling Student

A struggling student I have been observing for the past couple of weeks is in the 9the grade physical science of my host teachers class. Since I have been observing in my clinical he has completed and turned in very little school work, that includes homework and in class assignments. He doesn't listen to instructions very well, for example one day he pulled a chair by the window to sit in front of the window by himself and began playing with the blinds of the window. Such as, pulling on the string of the blinds, pulling the blinds shut, and then swinging the string of the blinds around so they would hit the blinds or the window. The teacher had to tell him several times to quit and sit at a science table away from the window before he finally listened. However, then he wanders around the room which is an every day occurrence of him wandering around the classroom. When given an assignment to complete during class time he doesn't do it, but waits until the last five minutes of class and copies what he can off of fellow classmates. Last week he received lunch detention for three days as a result of bad behavior. The host taecher said the boy doesn't care, and he is failing the majority of his classes. The teacher told me he doesn't understand how he passed the 8th grade other than the teachers gave him the lowest possible grades to pass on to the next grade level, and the problem has followed him into the 9th grade.