Is there an early intervention service you can call to come out and conduct an observation?
There might be 1 or 2 children here with serious, needing professional help type serious, behavior issues, that the rest of the children are feeding off of.
Kids should not be behaving this way. "Normal" children do not behave this way.
What are their parent's responses?
Some kids just are not able to be properly dealt with by mere mortals and may need more structure (or more of a license and training to restrain) than you are able to provide.
These kids are out there and can make a providers life miserable until they are out and being cared for by highly trained (and better compensated) individuals.
They'll be flipping desks soon enough within the public school system with their little IEPs saying they need an aide within 5 feet of them at all time.
Do you have a straw that will break the camels back?

I went back and read your posts better.
If you really think a child may be autistic the sooner they get services the better.
If the chaos is so bad you're worried they may shut you down, good God, how are you dealing with it everyday?
Parent's can call the state on a center for a child's behavior. If a child hurts someone badly enough they can peg it on the provider for not providing adequate protection for the other children.
Would you rather have someone there because you asked them or because a parent was so concerned because they saw little Bobbie with a chair over his head threatening to hit their little Susie, or because their kid was kicked in the head while laying down on their cot by the same little Bobbie, so they called the state.

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