Children say they’re excited to see their friends
March 15, 2021 | 2:03 pm
March 15, 2021
Caitlynn Peetz
For more than a year, Aoife Devlin has only gotten to interact with her classmates online, confined to small, virtual boxes on Zoom.
On Monday, Aoife, a kindergartner at Rosemary Hills Elementary School, boarded her school bus for the first time and met her friends in person.
“I think I’m going to like in-person school better,” she said. “I’ll get to see my friends. And I’m excited because I want to go to the playground.”
Aoife was one of about 19,000 Montgomery County Public Schools students in classrooms on Monday for the first time more than a year after they were closed in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.