“…Early childhood teachers faced with children biting, throwing chairs, inconsolably screaming, or otherwise disrupting the classroom are put in very difficult situations. Without appropriate resources, teachers may use disciplinary strategies to address challenging behaviors such as ignoring the behavior, using time‐outs, removing the child from the classroom, and eventually, removing the child from the center itself (Buck & Ambrosino, 2004; Quesenberry et al, 2014). A small but growing body of literature (e.g., Gilliam & Shahar, 2006; Martin et al, 2018; Zinsser et al, 2019) indicates that in early childhood, expulsion is the result of a series of adult decisions.…”