# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1956_S150
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SEMINARIES AND COLLEGES

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“Resignations” and “back to college” thus accounted for 93
per cent of average annual withdrawal of teachers in the system.
All the other causes — retirement, death in office, going to other
church positions or to sister synods— accounted for an annual
average of 43 withdrawals, or seven per cent of total withdrawals.

Annual withdrawals averaged 17.9 per cent of the total teacher
force in the past five years. Women teachers withdrew to the
extent of 25 per cent of their total number; men teachers withdrew
to the extent of ten per cent of their total number. The percentage
of teacher replacement need is declining from year to year even
though the numbers of teachers are increasing, as the following
table demonstrates:

Table 12 — Teacher Replacement Needs Since 1951

Replacement Per Cent of
Year Need Total Teachers
1951 569 18.3
1952 635 19.2
1953 629 17.9
1954 . 654 17.5
1955 690 17.3

Taking this rate into account, teacher replacement needs may
be expected to develop in the next ten years as follows:

Table 13 — Projected Replacement Needs, 1956—1965

Replacement

Year Need
1956 717
1957 746
1958 776
1959 -807
1960 840
1961 874
1962 909
1963 946
1964 984
1965 1,024

Total: 8,623

The estimates in Table Ten are based on the assumption that
replacement needs will decline to 16.7 per cent of the total teacher
force in 1965.

Of the expected total of 8,623 withdrawals in the next decade,
1,300 may be expected to go back to college and return to teaching
positions in the church.

Replacement needs for teachers is not equivalent to replace-
ment needs for pastors, except in the case of installed men teachers.
For teachers other than these called and installed teachers, the
situation is more like that in public education, where teachers
terminate for reasons that are sufficient to themselves, subject only
to the terms of contract.

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