He did not forbid it.

He never forbade anything; that is not how it worked and I have had to learn a vocabulary for this that I did not have at the time.

What he did was sit at the end of the kitchen table one evening and explain, reasonably, at some length, that he had eleven clients in that school district.

That two of them were on the board of the booster club.

That in a town of that size a reputation is the entire asset.