My parents raised eight kids, and I'm No. 8.

If we can educate the kids, they'll educate the parents.

Their parents still need care and it's important for us to provide that wholesome place for kids to come and participate in activities.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

Every individual face, a grandmother or grandchild or parents and their two kids, they're all there waving at you and they've all come to see you, it's as simple as that. They're not there simply by chance and that's very, very humbling.

[Parents can't get enough of the report cards.] In previous years at the State Fair, ... the department had kids throw beanbag frogs into holes. Last year, we printed out 5,000 school report cards instead. Parents would come up and say, 'I'm thinking of moving, or using open enrollment. Can you print out a report card for this neighborhood school, and the schools close to it?' What a change!