I think the point of "special needs" as far as gifted kids is concerned is that they do have special needs in the school setting. Anti-grade skipping rhetoric says, "you're not letting a kid have a normal childhood". So, tell me then, how is it letting a child be a child if the spend their whole childhood being teachers helper? See, that's why a special needs child as far as school goes.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar