Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Gifts I am a music teacher. I keep my students most of the time for 3 full years. In addition, I teach many of their siblings. I am the only guitar teacher in my county, and therefore, my course is extremely popular, and in many cases, I will have two or more siblings from the same family over the course of years. My problem is that because I do get closer to my students' families, they often send in gifts for various occasions or holidays. Our code of ethics states that educator's may not accept gifts in any form from students or parents. How do I handle this? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I have never heard that teachers could not accept gifts from students, I see no problem accepting the gifts and can very well be awkward sending them back with the student to their parent. But if this is the case, maybe send a note home with the student apologizing to the parent and stating how you would like to accept but unfortunately due to the code of ethics you cannot accept the gift.