# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1953_S1028
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e we awe t our Board has thus far been ore attention te
schools and _miremely happy about the expansion to give i¢
that a prest many new schools that have been o of i
‘at effort must be made to extend Pened, we ¢ eel
more Congregations, nd the schools man
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First f all ACTION
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mittee 4. ynod resolved upon recommendation of C
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for a difficult task well done.

As t :
the he, an the seestions of the Board for Parish Educati
and Synod rene fot More Schools,” Commit orn under
ad Synod resolved: , tee 4 recommended,

w th Resolution 2
._ “HEREAS, The Lord of the Church
con indivi fe
cern of the individual Christian and of the local cone ronal
ion

to bring up the children ;
e urtu
Lord; therefore be it mis the nurture and admonition of the
Resolved, That the
. ] t, :
- of our children j Chas es ablished Synodical goal of 50 per cent

i tian day. schools
most easily and satisfactorily ten ched if irae 1972 be thought of as

individual. congregation in Synod to have
wn children in a Christian day school;

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265

PARISH EDUCATION

wed, That, to this end we urge every congregation to
e possibilities of organizing a Christian day school if it

‘glveady have one; and be it

ed, That we urge the sharing of existing schools with

that have not as yet established one; and be it

ed, That we encourage the establishment of more con-

(central) schools, to be maintained by a group of con- -

ins; and be it finally

solved, That our congregations avail themselves of the study

findings of Synod’s Board for Parish Education in this area

lucational advance.

% - The Teacher Situation

““Capeacher training has been considerably increased. River Forest
Baw devotes itself wholly to the college years and has a record
enrollment. Seward, which still has also the high school depart-
ment, also has a record enrollment of teacher-training students.
A two-year terminal course for women has been approved for the
emergency at Winfield; two-year teacher-training courses have
been introduced at Fort Wayne, Oakland, and St. Paul. Men grad-
uates have increased from 30 in 1947 to 99 in 1952 and to 116 in
1953. Women graduates have increased from 18 in 1947 to 55 in
1952 and to 75 in 1953. . ‘

Yet underproduction of graduate teachers prior to this time
and the expansion of the school system have been so great that
during the present school year, with its 3,449 teachers, only 1,518
are men graduates and 173 are women graduates, a total of 1,691
graduate teachers active in the schools — leaving 1,758 others, such
as two-year students of the teachers’ and preparatory colleges,
students or graduates of other Lutheran institutions (St. Louis,
Springfield, Valparaiso, Mankato, etc.), non-graduate regular
women teachers, teaching pastors (small number), and emergency
women and men teachers. The annual turnover and mortality
among the teachers is tremendous. Only the regular male teachers
and a certain number of steady women teachers make for a high
degree of permanence. Outside them our teachers are quite
transient. The annual supply of graduates and students, though
very considerable now, is not enough to replace the annual losses
and leaves unsupplied both many existing positions and all new
positions gained each year. (We gained 199 new teaching positions
from 1951 to 1952.) ; ;

The calls and applications annually received by the Board of
Assignment are issued early in spring and do not represent the
total demand that exists in spring and that develops by the fall
of the year. In 1952 the Board had 528 such calls and applications