Background checks

“Are you a scarecrow?” my mother would ask, usually arching one eyebrow. The correct response was, “No Ma’am.”

The scarecrow my mother was referring to was the one in the Wizard of Oz. If you’re not familiar with that tale, let me refresh your memory.

Dorothy, a young girl living in Kansas, is picked up by a tornado and whisked away to a different place. To get home, she will have to follow the yellow brick road to Oz where the Wizard can send her home.

Dorothy makes the trip with three friends who all want something from the Wizard. There is the Cowardly Lion who wants courage. There is the Tinman who wants a heart. And there is the Scarecrow. He wants a brain.

I wish my mother was still around to ask her Scarecrow question when I read about the case of Ray Fetcho. Fetcho was a nurse, beloved by the families of the dementia patients he has cared for more than three decades.

He just lost his job because he was arrested in 1976 for a misdemeanor connected to a night club act. He has no other criminal record. Here’s how the Sun Sentinel explains the situation.

“The state has been […]