As one mother wrote in the Flushing Chinese-American Parents 'Association newsletter, her very bright daughter became a rebel and a truant after getting into a prestigious senior high school in New York City.
法拉盛華人家長會刊物上，一名家長悲傷地寫著，她自小聰明伶俐的女孩，考上紐約市著名的明星高中後，居然成為一個蹺課、逃家的「忤逆青年」。