To be honest, most of those kids are the types who will start coding/hacking on their own, not sure if a special school is needed for this I might be a special

To be honest, most of those kids are the types who will start coding/hacking on their own, not sure if a special school is needed for this I might be a special case but for what it's worth: I didn't start programming until I was a freshman at Stuyvesant High School. I took the intro course on a whim and was hooked. If the computer science program didn't exist, I might not have gotten into it. I was more into art than math/cs back then. I didn't have much of an environment to discover that I loved programming before that, and I bet many other kids don't either.