# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S149
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES 149

Replacement Needs

“Replacement need” means teachers needed to take the places
of those who resign, retire, die in office, go back to college, assume
other church positions, or accept teaching posts in sister synods.

Because replacement needs are high, it is well to familiarize
oneself with the reasons why teachers quit. The following table
itemizes replacement needs for types of teachers:

Table 11— Five-Year Average in Replacement Needs for Types
of Teachers, 1951—1955

Types of Teachers

Resigned
Retired
Died in
Oftce
Back to
College
'o Other
Positions
To Sister
Synods
Total

Men Teachers

Installed men ——.__... 38 14 5 3 13 1 74
Men students, teachers’ coll. 13 —- -+ 43 — - 56
ther synodical college men ____ 12 1 - 10 _ - 23
Other men teachers_ sO _ - 1 1 - 13
Pastors ——_—_..__ 14 —_ - _— —_ - 14
Subtotals = sag 15 5 57 14 1 180

Annual average of 180 replacement needs for men teachers is 10%
of total men teachers.

Women Teachers

Women graduates _ — 56 —_ - 1 1 - 58
Women students, teachers’ coll._ 62 — —_ 2000 —- - 82
Other synodical college women _ 74 1 - 6 — . 81
Regular women teachers _ __ 130 3 1 3 1 - 138
Emergency women teachers _______ 86 1 - 6 — - 93

Subtotals _ 408 5 1 36 2 —- 452

Grand Totals 496 20 6 93 16 1 632

Annual average of 452 replacement needs for women teachers is 25%
of total women teachers.

In the past five years, an annual average of 408 women
teachers “resigned.” Their number accounts for 82 per cent of
all resignations. Detailed surveys are not available that pinpoint
the causes for this large number of resignations. Marriage is un-
doubtedly the major cause. Economic reasons and ill health may
also be assumed to be chief causes, even as they are that in public
education. These resignations are not always permanent. Some
return to teach again.

:

“Back to college” is the second major reason why teachers
terminate their positions in the schools. An average of 93 did so
annually in the past five years; they represent 15 per cent of total
withdrawals. Far the most they were students who returned to
college in order to complete their studies.