Doing the Mess Around Nobody has a clue of the skills students will need to bring to bear when they enter the workforce. Technological, environmental, social, cultural, parental, political and communal skills are a changing very fast because of the increase in speed that the Internet accords communication. There is not a great deal of lag time available to develop curriculum, educational resources, teaching skills, and jobs training and coop programs to be developed for to fill the jobs that will be. Students and teachers and employers end up “ Do’in the Mess Around ,” as Ray Charles would say; of course not literally, but figuratively. Oh, it’s a lot of fun do’in the mess around, that’s for sure, but in reality everyone is wasting time jumping from academic objective to academic objective just to say that standards have been adhered to. But, very, very little is understood, transferrable to other applications or remembered. Parents look the other way when students resort to che
