Records: ‘Fight club’ organizers had poor work histories
April 7th, 2009‘A recipe for disaster’
From the Dallas Morning News:
An investigation of personnel records by the Dallas Morning News has found that the 11 Corpus Christi State School employees accused of staging “fight club” brawls between residents with intellectual disabilities were hired despite limited work experience, limited education and poor work histories.
Among the findings:
- Only four of the employees had direct-care experience; most had worked as fast-food busboys, forklift operators or housekeepers;
- Among the four with experience, one had been fired from a private-sector residential care facility and another had been suspended in August for verbally abusing a resident;
- Two had already been disciplined by the Department of Aging and Disability Services; and
- None had more education than a high school diploma or GED.
[Said] Colleen Horton, with the University of Texas Center for Disability Studies: “When you give people with limited education and limited skill full control over every aspect of vulnerable residents’ lives, it’s a recipe for disaster.”
All 11 employees have either left the Corpus Christi State School or have been fired, and charges have been filed against six of them.
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