Some parents preferred that I wasn’t their kid’s teacher. It’s because I routinely went above and beyond the textbooks. It wasn’t hard: the high school social studies textbooks we used homogenized history. For instance, they said the Europeans civilized the Indians. Mention that to the Ottawas and Chippewas on the Leelanau Peninsula. They’ll respond that their ancestors were plenty civilized, thank you, when the Americans, Canadians, and Europeans began settling here in the early 19th century. For some reason, some parents get riled up when someone teaches that to their kids.