Principal Hsia sees this process unfold in the students. In their first year of senior high school they are initially well behaved, but because they have no experience of freedom, they soon begin to do things they were not allowed to do in junior high, such as perming and dyeing their hair. Throughout the first year, they test the boundaries of their new freedom.
從學生身上，校長夏惠汶很明顯地看到轉變的過程：高一的學生，剛進來時乖乖的，隨後因為「自由」是過去沒有的經驗，因此他們開始做一些國中時代嚴格禁止的行為，例如燙髮、染髮，不斷地測試自由的界線。