The prime minister's staff came forward to clarify his position, saying that reporters had misunderstood, and that his actual words were that it would be inappropriate to build more "non-state middle schools." Because the focus of the subject under discussion at the time had been Chinese-language primary schools, it had resulted in a misunderstanding by reporters.
隨後，首相幕僚出面澄清，是記者誤會了，因為首相談的其實是增建「非政府中學」不妥；而由於當時話題焦點是「華小」，才引發記者們誤解。