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Will the pandemic force teachers out of Washington-area classrooms?
By Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson and Perry Stein
After nearly a year of online learning, parents in the Washington region were thrilled to hear announcements from public schools, some of them tumbling out rapid-fire in recent days, that in-person learning will resume next month for students who choose it.
But families quickly discovered that in-person learning will not necessarily mean sitting in a classroom and being taught by a teacher. Instead, school officials in Maryland and Virginia have been hiring “classroom monitors” who will fill out school staffing — in some cases supervising classrooms as students continue to do online lessons.
For some parents, it’s the latest disappointment in pandemic-era learning: more virtual learning, no teacher in the room.
