Ducks make their break from school courtyard

Washington Elementary students line up to guide a mother duck and her ducklings from the Washington courtyard to a creek next to the school. Press photos by Kate Hayden

Washington Elementary School Principal Kara Shannon encourages ducklings to hop up the ledge into school after they avoided a ramp staff tried to set up for them.

Washington Elementary students watch a mother duck and her ducklings march into the creek next to the school.