Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Here Are Good Passages to Plagiarize":
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Posted on mlsem.org...total enrollment is under 200...that breaks down to about 50 students per class....did they really save MLS??
With its festive Thanksgiving for Ministry service, MLS opened its 99th year as a prep school on Sunday, August 24.
Pastor Peter Naumann, president of the Dakota-Montana district, preached on 2 Timothy 3:14-17, reminding the new tutors to rely on the power of the Word in their ministries.
Tutors Andrew Naumann and Amanda Dunn were the only new faculty members at MLS. Prof. Rebecca Berg was recognized for her ten years of service at MLS.
The school year opens with an enrollment of 197, including 47 freshmen.
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GJ - I wrote about the school in 1987, when they had about 320 students (as I recall). Students = tuition = salaries.
One of the most read Ichabod posts is Kuske's analysis of synod spending and the preps. I am no accountant, but it seems that the Gurgel-Mueller administration raised tuition through the roof and kept surplus funds to run their wild schemes. Gurgel, who had the spiritual gifts of leadership, was forced to leave his position. Perhaps he had another spirit.
The now-dead appeal of the preps was a reasonable cost for high school education. Now the charges are jacked up so high that anyone will gasp at the cost. Enrollments tumbled when the tuition hikes forced on the schools took their effect.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Did They Really Save Michigan Lutheran Seminary?":
Dear Pastor Jackson,
Do you think if WELS could develop a comprehensive plan to develop and recruit future called workers more effectively from the area Lutheran high schools(many of which now have dorms) that we really need MLS? I understand the emotions and even the blame that gets passed around but I have never believed that we couldn't do our recruitment differently and maybe more effectively.
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GJ - I am not the one to decide these things. There is a great opportunity ahead for schools, to expand into online education, even at the high school and lower levels. Several areas present themselves. Homeschoolers may want or need (due to secular education persecution) certified supervisors. Some children do not perform well in schools and may want the benefits of online. Others are so far ahead of the rest that they can use special attention.
Online provides a chance to get people through college or taking post-graduate classes.
The WELS budget has an inordinate amount spent on stewardship and computer technology. Some of that applied to online education would bring dividends.
WELS needs, first of all, a thorough doctrinal review and reformation. Schools are even more damaging when they are used, as the Sausage Factory is, to promote false doctrine.
