Is This Unethical?
I work at a large ABA center with about 15 classrooms serving ~7 clients per room M-F from 8-4 PM. Today, we had so many technicians call out that a dozen clients were without 1:1 services.
In response, my company decided to place all of the uncovered clients in an unused classroom (with toys/furniture ofc) with a few higher ups and admin people watching them. At most there were 12 children in this room with 4/5 adults watching them. They were not providing therapy, collecting data, nothing. Just keeping the kids safe and attempting to get them to play together.
The part I really think is unethical is that those in charge decided not to tell any parents about what happened. The parents dropped their children off at our center to receive therapy, the kids did not receive therapy for several hours, and this was not communicated to the parents. The time the kids were in the room is not documented because no one collected data or billed. There was one client who received only two hours of actual, billed 1:1 out of a 7 hour day.
Anyway, thoughts? Is this actually unethical or does it just feel wrong? I will happily report this shithole.