Aculady: Thanks for the feedback. Isn't the maximum score 300? If so, there seems to be some room for improvement (otherwise why bother establishing the range). When you say talent searches what are you referring to? He had an opportunity to go to a tech/engineering oriented GT Middle School (I'm fairly certain that he could have - classmates in elementary School GT that were not quite as successful as my son made it in). But we were satisfied that he would be well served at our local MS. He's doing Algebra now (6th grade) and will move on to Honors Geometry soon. While he likes English and is quite good at it, his true interest is math and science...

Dude: Thanks for the feedback. I'm generally not that worried about violence - he seems to put it in the proper context - for instance I let him read John Le Carre etc. It's just that he noted it and shared his "concerns" (and that was the first time since the Hunger Games (sp?) that he did that)...