# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1950_S1078
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

880 PARISH EDUCATION

them to develop greater home-church co-operation, more hom
visitation and effective marriage counseling.
13. That our congregations encourage their pastors, teache: .
and lay workers to get special training for an effective program
of family life education; and that the Board for Parish Education;
through its Family Life Committee, assist the Districts in providing a
opportunities. for such training. ‘

2. Parochial Schools :
2.1. That Synod provide additional facilities for teacher train-
ing to meet the desperate demand for teachers in our expanding
school system. Bi
2.2. That a judicious recruiting system be inaugurated in order ;
to provide the necessary number of male students for the teachers .;
colleges, the details to be worked out by the Board for Parish
Education in co-operation with the teachers colleges. ,
Nore: The Board for Higher Education and the Committee on,
Enrollment Trends and Teacher Demand will have specific recom; .
mendations concerning both the foregoing points. 7
2.3. That a more determined effort be made to reach the.
rolilment goal of 50 per cent of our children in elementary schools,
(The gain during the past triennium was only 1.7 per cent, that js ;
from 32 per cent in 1945 to 33.7 per cent in 1948, though the enroll+
ment for the same period increased by 14,253 and the number of
teachers by 473.)
2.4. That the missionary efforts of the schools be increased
and encouraged and that provision be made-to receive into our
schools the increasing number of children on “waiting lists,” either
by local congregations themselves or by means of a subsidy from :
the Districts. i

3. The Status of the Teacher
3.1. Since it has been necessary for synodical officials and fo
the Board for Parish Education to clarify the status of the Lutheran
male teacher, and since a formal approval of the action of its of-
ficials in this matter has not heretofore been given by Synod itself,
it is requested that Synod officially approve the clarification giy
to the Government of the status of the Lutheran male teacher.

4, High Schools ; ws
4.1, That Synod remind Lutheran communities not to lose sigh

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