Treatment of People with Disabilities

I was reading the paper today, and came across these articles...

1) "Cameras Installed after School 'Fight Club' Scandal". At first, I figured it was a high school that some kids had organized a fight club in. Oh, no, it is far worse. Rather, the Texas Agency of Aging and Disabilities Services - at Corpus Christi - a school for people with disabilities - was found to have a fight club, organized by staff. This club involved staff members forcing their clients - people with mental and physical disabilities - to fight, a process on which they bet. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/11/texas.school.fight.club/index.html) I can't even tell you how mad that makes me. People who are trusted to care for and assist others are knowingly putting them in harms way and betting on it! What kind of a sick, twisted world do we live in?

Not surprisingly, there was also an article about how we get a "D" as a nation, in caring for people with mental disabilities. (http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/mentalhealth/03/11/mental.illness/index.html)