Students are worried about their future.
Teachers are worried about their jobs.
Administrators are worried about how to run their schools with rising costs and shrinking budgets. Governments are worried about developing an electorate that has job skills relevant to the 21st century . Taxpayers are worried that they will have to pay increased taxes starting now to fund the increased budgets needed to restructure our educational system so that it will be competitive in the next century. An investment that may not bear visible fruit for many years. The social costs of adequately revamping Canada's educational systems to address the changes that are propelling us toward the beginning of the next century are astronomical.