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Ethics of band teachers selling to students?

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-12-02 12:27

Do public school in the U.S.A. generally give music teachers rules about whether or not they can sell musical instruments to their students? When I was a child in the 1950s, my band teacher nearly got fired when the school district discovered that a local music store paid him to recommend that kids' parents buy their instruments and supplies there. He also told the parents that certain models of instruments were the only ones worth buying, and guess what? Those were the only models that neighborhood store sold. I assume that type of conduct is no more acceptable now than then.

But what about used instruments? Band teachers generally learn something about basic repairs and some teachers get quite good at restoring old instruments. Sometimes that's the only way to keep the school-owned instruments playable. So, what about the next step? Do schools consider it ethical or unethical for a band teacher to buy used instruments cheaply at flea markets, yard sales and auctions, fix the instruments up and sell them directly to kids?

Lelia
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