Kid may have been bright, but doesn’t seem to have been all that bright.
There’s a report from when he was in public school about how hard he worked at his schoolwork. Then a couple of reports about how hard his mother pushed him to excel at school. Finally, after some home schooling, he took college classes at a local mediocre school and got B+ grades at fairly middling classes.
Sounds like smart, but not as smart as he and his mom wanted him to be. Also, the kid was clearly messed up at an early age while dad was still at home. Finally, the Columbine kids, among many others, had dads in their lives.
One of the Columbine killer’s father (I think Harris),still doesn’t admit his son had a problem!!
For people interested in teenage psychos, the book “Columbine” is brilliant.