my worry is that unless he's challenged, he won't cooperate with them at all and will just run around trying to find something that would entertain him (like taking whatever mechanical thing he can find apart).
You have a better shot at getting differentiation with that low student-teacher ratio than anywhere else, including kindergarten; they are likely to be able to adapt what books are available and so forth, and the business of SpEd is meeting individual needs.
In my experience, no matter how bright a kid is, if he can't pay attention to instruction, he is going to struggle mightily in the early grades; it is that kind of skill that they'd work on at the SpEd school. From your earlier post it sounds like that's what he might need, no matter what content he's ready for. If you understand the *skills* as the content he'd be learning, not the facts or materials, it may change your idea of what's happening in that environment. Only close observation will tell.
DeeDee
