They would rather rely on their own resources to start up schools than cut off transmission of the traditional culture. Thus were Chinese language "independent secondary schools," which cannot get government subsidies and whose diplomas are not recognized, established.
他們寧願硬著頭皮靠自己的力量興學，也不願斷送傳統文化，得不到政府經費補助，文憑又不被承認的華文「獨立中學」於是成立。