According to Ding Gih-jen, head of the Jendo Education Society, the pressure on junior high school students is mainly a product of there not being enough academic senior high schools. Currently less than 40 % of junior high students are admitted to academic high schools. Students always pick the public academic high schools first, "and the vocational high schools get the students that none of the other schools want."
分析台灣國中生的壓力來源，振鐸學會理事丁志仁說，主要因為高中數量不足，目前國中升高中的升學率只有百分之三十二；而在高中裡，大家會先選公立高中，再選私立高中，「高職永遠撿高中剩下的學生」。