Education Going green for little kids means dressing in the dark, turning off the iPad

Each morning, 10-year-old Tuyet Le gets ready for her day with the lights off. By choice.

“Many people can turn on the lights and then they’re not helping the Earth,” said Tuyet, a student at William Tyler Page Elementary School in Silver Spring. “So it’s better to turn off more.”

Tuyet has been passionate about helping the Earth since — she pauses, mulling — she was 7 or 8 and joined her school’s green team as an environmental ambassador in classrooms and at home. Learning about the environment at school sparked her passion.

“I use less water when I’m brushing my teeth and then my lights are off when I’m changing, so I can save electricity,” she said. “At the end of the day, I always turn off my iPad before I go to bed,” and she’s sparing with shower water.

The state’s push for green schools was highlighted in a recent Chesapeake Bay Program report, which said that in 2015, more than 80 percent of the certified sustainable schools in the improving watershed were in Maryland.

Read the Washington Post’s full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/going-green-for-little-kids-means-dressing-in-the-dark-turning-off-the-ipad/2018/02/10/c801731a-05d7-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.85e91e0637dd