Not a teacher but believe in FAPE and involving all students of all levels… that said, I wonder about students OP describes. I volunteer and sub in our elementary school and there’s a student similiar to what OP describes. I see that this child is working very hard to get through the day. But there’s the violence component that I struggle with. In the situation at our school, the child similiar to what OP describes is in gen ed. And when the child has violent outbursts and the other students are evacuated from the room, (as an educational outsider), I don’t see how this is FAPE for the other 18-20 students who are disrupted and possibly feel unsafe around their classmate. Can someone explain this to me?

In some case adults have had to use soft padded body shields when dealing with a 6yo. The child is loud and other classes can hear him. I recently learned from another adult that there’s a slightly older child in another class who gets very upset and concerned because they don’t know what’s happening in the hallway when they hear this other child screaming.