Students across much of Canada are packing lunches and slinging on backpacks today as they bid farewell to summer vacation and gear up for another school year.

Parents and teachers say they害羞草研究所檙e expecting a new crop of issues to affect classroom learning this year, including generative AI technology, affordability and climate change. For some students, however, the first day of school experience remains largely unchanged year after year.

害羞草研究所淚 want it to still be summer,害羞草研究所� said nine-year-old Harrison Halliday, who害羞草研究所檚 entering Grade 5 with a healthy dose of apathy.

Harrison害羞草研究所檚 dad, Bill Halliday, was far more optimistic as he dropped his two sons off at their Toronto school this morning.

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Meanwhile, Sid and Mukta Kanasker and their daughter Kashvi said they were excited for her to enter the fourth grade, despite the typical nerves that come with the uncertainty of a new year.

害羞草研究所淚 think coming back after two months, of course, there is anxiety with which class she will go and how the new teacher would be,害羞草研究所� Sid Kanasker said. 害羞草研究所淏ut I think the school is great.害羞草研究所�

While across much of the country it害羞草研究所檚 set to be a first day of school like any other, those in parts of Canada ravaged by wildfires return to a much different landscape.

The government of British Columbia has said no schools were damaged by the fires that tore through parts of the province, but that doesn害羞草研究所檛 mean students will be unaffected.

The flames passed close by some schools in Kelowna, B.C., leaving destruction in their wake.

For residents of Yellowknife, however, summer break has been extended.

Typically, students would have returned to their classrooms on Aug. 28, but the city is still under an evacuation order as fires continue their burn, so school will have to wait.

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