“…Academic failure can be attributed to behavioral problems and poor academic achievement. Children with a shorter attention span (Shinn, Ramsey, Walker, O'Neill, & Steiber, 1987), compulsive and disruptive behavior, and poor academic skills (Cobb, 1972) are less likely to succeed in school. Normative peers often reject antisocial children's aggressive interactional strategies (Coie & Kupersmidt, 1983), so that they have little choice but to make friends with deviant peers.…”