I miss a lot about being a kid. Waking up early for Saturday morning cartoons, having the energy to be able to play all day long and having all my meals and snacks prepared for me. But this time of year the thing I miss the most is going back to school.

I haven’t been in a classroom in over 10 years but the call of back-to-school shopping still gets to me. I have the instinct to buy new clothes, fill a backpack with number-two pencils and three-ringed binders and head back to the classroom.

Fall means something different

There were always some kids, like me, who were jumping at the chance to go back to school – cramming down breakfast so we could get to school extra early to see all our friends and find out which class we were in.  And there are those kids, and I imagine teachers, that seem to deflate a little more each day that August goes by until the first day of school arrives and their shoulders are hunched and their regret is written all over their face.

End of summer

Across the country summer is ending and teachers are back at work. Ranch Ehrlo is no exception. We have 30 teachers (including principals, vice-principals, director vocational/secondary education, vocational program managers, resource coordinator) employed at Schaller School on our Pilot Butte Campus, Ellen Gunn Education Centre in Corman Park, Boucher School in Prince Albert, and  teacher in regular elementary and high schools to help our clients integrate into regular classrooms.

We also have teachers in our transition program located in Regina, which helps prepares youth to transition from their intake and stabilization classroom toward a mainstream placement.

So cheers to all the teachers going back who are excited for school to start, and to the rest it’s only a short nine months until summer holidays start again.