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.