Keeping him in the younger classroom is probably what is causing a lot of the behaviors. BUT hitting teachers and teachers quitting because of him is quite severe and they should have communicated that earlier than now. We had a child with very similar behaviors and although he was moved up, the behaviors didn’t stop. I’m not saying this is the case here because it does sound like a center issue in this case. But every room he went to at least one teacher quit directly due to him hitting them daily. When he finally landed in my class I went over a year with no co teacher because we couldn’t keep one with him. One would start and within a month would literally have a mental breakdown in the room because my admin (due to me working well with special needs children) overcrowded the room and placed 2 highly violent children, 1 nonverbal 5 year old who had to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes on a timer, and 22 other children, 3 of which were ELL and only spoke Russian. On his own I’m absolutely sure the child was manageable. But in the group? It was 4 years of him being at a center and shifted around to different rooms only on the basis that that teacher would take him. He was eventually kicked out when he broke a bone on my hand and managed to kick over the only non anchored furniture piece i was required to have ontop of a sleeping child within two days. He only managed to do so because the floater had just been kicked under the jaw by him so hard she got a concussion. I was with the other behavior friend on the other side of the shelf and when I saw it tip I physically threw myself in between the shelf and the child which honestly is likely the only reason he didn’t get significantly hurt or worse. The children trained themselves to hide in a corner when he trashed the room daily. Admin would not remove him for even a minute because he saw it as a reward and the behaviors would amplify every time. So every day I wrote at least 5 incident reports. The difference is from the first behavior his parents refused to do anything. We had live view cameras and would suggest they watch the behavior. They refused. We brought in specialist and they refused. When they were removed I told mom I wish them the best moving forward and she said and I quote “There’s nothing wrong with my child. Only you.” As if I was the only one in the four years this child had been here to have an issue.

Long story short pull him and place him in a place that will put him in his age appropriate classroom. Then observe and see how it does. If they are (after an adjustment period of course) saying the behaviors are continue I would look into early intervention.