# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1947_S238
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286 SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

the responsibility of each Board in this matter, a joint meeting was
held with the Board for Parish Education in September, 1946.
Results of this consultation are included in the Report on the
Board for Parish Education.

The need for additional service is growing, but at this time there
appears to be little prospect of introducing any specific program
of high school teacher training into the existing facilities of the
Teachers Colleges, since these are already overtaxed in their effort
to supply the elementary school teachers needed by Synod,

Very extensive adjustments would be required to enable our
Teachers Colleges to prepare Lutheran high school teachers who
meet the credential regulations and the certification requirements
of the various State Departments of Education. It may well be
that some additional offerings specifically designed for the second-
ary level could be introduced at the Teachers Colleges at some
future date should this be found desirable; however, extreme need
for elementary school teachers will force your Board into a program
which at present envisions no more than the presentation of the
need for high school teachers to graduates from both the Theolog-
ical Seminaries and the Teachers Colleges and provisions for co-
operating with the Parish Board in gathering, filing, and making
relevant information on such qualifications available to the prin-
cipals and Boards of Lutheran High Schools. For further specific
subject preparation or training in administration and methods for
use on the secondary level, students will, for the present, have to
rely on universities or other teachers’ colleges.

In this connection the following memorial was considered:

Preparation of High School Teachers
at Synodical Teachers Colleges
(Unprinted Memorial 15)

It is well known that our elementary schools are experiencing
.an acute shortage of teachers. A revival of interest in Christian
education has led to the establishment of new schools and the ex-
pansion of schools already in existence. This same revival has led
to a great interest in Lutheran high schools. Here, too, an acute
shortage of properly trained teachers has been experienced, In-
deed, it has sometimes been necessary to staff our high schools with
non-Lutheran teachers.

While our Synod has recognized that the period in youth cov-
ered by the high school is a critical one in the religious life of the
individual, Synod has provided no specific type of training for high
school teachers and has officially designated no institution for their
training. As a result the existing Lutheran high schaols have ex-