Pandemic learning takes another turn: Will teachers be in person in classrooms? Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson and Perry Stein, The Washington Post Feb. 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail A third-grade class learns at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Southeast Washington on Friday.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein. 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 last week, 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, 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.