# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1054
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

856 PARISH EDUCATION

for memory work. It appears.that a study of these variatio:
practice is very much in order so that we may set reasonabl
adequate standards for confirmation instruction.
- The Board for Parish Education would encourage all past
and teachers’ conferences and congregations to place this impo:
item on their agenda and would encourage also the individus
congregations to discuss the provisions in the local congregatio:
for this important phase of the educational program.

High Schools

Synod at Saginaw in 1944 assigned the promotion and guidar
of Lutheran secondary schools to the Board for Parish Education}
and since that time the Board has been active in this area: Th
Board has published two monographs, “Establishing a Luth
High School” and “Financing a Lutheran High School,” and
them available to leaders in Lutheran high school projects. t

The Board for Parish Education is also working in close
operation with the Association of Lutheran Secondary Schddle
This group has received a grant of $10,000 from the Centent
Research Fund for the purpose of developing a curriculum
Lutheran secondary schools. The research on this project will
somewhat over three years. When completed, however, we
have a complete curriculum for Lutheran high schools, indica
the specific objectives of the various subject-matter fields, co
content and sample resource units for the individual subjects;
in harmony with the Lutheran philosophy of education. The Boar
for Parish Education has participated in the various wor
previously held to develop a curriculum in religion for secondasy
schools and will also co-operate in the project of developing ::the
curriculum for Lutheran high schools. ;

Two new high schools have been opened since the last synod:
ical convention: Cleveland in September, 1948, and Houstonygf
September, 1949. Both schools have followed the pattern of begi
ning with the freshman and sophomore years and of thus spreading
the shaping up of the full program over a three-year peri
Interest in Lutheran high schools is high in several other ¢ Ms
munities. At the Centennial Convention the Board for Parish:
cation stated that with faith and consecration, and with leader
that sees the importance of Christian education at the secon
level, it should be possible for us to develop twenty new. :h
schools during the next twenty years. This is still an attai
goal. May God give us the consecration and leadership neede
attain it. ; _

Figures for the 1949—50 school year indicate the follo
status of Lutheran secondary education:

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