Potomac Schools Will Participate in Walk to School Day

Two local elementary schools are ditching the cars on Wednesday morning as part of Walk to School Day. 

Students and teachers at Wayside Elementary School and Beverly Farms Elementary School are meeting up on Wednesday, Oct. 6 to walk and bike to school together as a way to promote healthy habits, to create safer routes for walking and biking and to improve air quality in the area.

Wayside students and teachers are meeting up at 8:45 a.m. at one of four locations to walk to school together. Even if students take the bus or carpool, they are encouraged to get dropped off at one of the designated places to join the walk. 

Walk to School Day first began in 1997 and since then the event has developed into a movement that more than 3,200 schools across the United States will participate in this year. There are 59 schools in Maryland participating in 2010's Walk to School Day. Internationally, more than 40 countries participate in Walk to School Day.