Name that Tune - Living in the USA or Suspicious Minds

I will present a hypothetical situation. I am interested in any one's response. At least mull it over for the implications.

There is a parent who owns a business. There are 100's of patrons to this business. It has a good reputation. At the time of my hypothetical situation, the business had been operative right at 20 years.

During this 20 years, there have been countless employee's of the HCDS who have used this business. No problems. In fact, the good reputation is why so many used it.

In the last 16 years, this same parent/business owner has had a child enrolled in the HCDS. There was an older kid than the one below.

It was happenstance that one of the business patrons was also an HCDS employee and was also involved with the second child of the business owner. The relationship was positive both as patron/business owner and HCDS employee/parent. In fact, the relationship between HCDS employee and parent spanned almost 14 years. Relationship started when kid was 4 months old and was extremely positive. HCDS employee was extremely competent in her area.

Due to circumstances that evolved, the relationship between the parent and the HCDS became adversarial. The above mentioned relationship remained the same.

Within a few weeks of an event that "drew a line in the sand" between parent and HCDS, the above mentioned patron of the parent's business (employee of the HCDS) was told by some one in the District to not do business with parent/business owner, as it was a "conflict of interest".

Fast forward. Business has now been operative 32 years. Still has patrons of HCDS. No issues.

Change the hypothectical to a real event. Mull it over. Let me know what you think.