 This plan was still viewed as an unacceptable compromise amongst some Chinese, and a minority of the Chinese schools refused the proposal and became private high schools or Chinese independent high schools as they were later called.This concept slowly gained popularity and, during the 1960s and 70s, many of the National Type high schools reopened their independent high school branch.Their numbers continued to grow until a period when the political situation in Malaysia made it impossible to set up additional independent Chinese high schools.