Did you see behavioral issues escalate as desire for older playmates increase combined with availability restrictions?
Yes, though I think our bigger problem was that the decrease in the number of true peers in the age-based 1st grade class coincided with the complete lack of challenging schoolwork.
Unhappy kids have trouble fitting in. Kids don't usually like to be friends with a child who's in trouble a lot. It all kind of comes together as a package deal of negativity a lot of the time, I think.