Dinner with 8th grader: “Today we learned that the Civil War didn’t start over slavery.” Husband and I make eye contact: What did it start over? “State’s rights” [Screaming begins] 8th grader: Are you going to write another letter? #ArkansasEducation

Same thing happened in my house. When I was in the seventh grade I came home and told my parents we had to fight in Vietnam or we would be fighting on the shores of Hawaii. My father got so apoplectic he took me to Vietnam to show me what war was.