On the other hand, there's no guarantee that throwing money at a problem will solve it. Chen notes that Taitung County students 'scores on the Basic Competency Test have ranked the lowest in the nation for four years running, far behind those of even the second-worst performing region. "This suggests that large amounts of tutoring haven't enabled Taitung County to catch up."
然而，資源多未必代表成效佳，陳淑麗以台東縣的國中基測表現為例，連續 4 年都屈居全國之末，且遙遙落後倒數第二名，「這似乎意味著，大量的課輔資源未能有效解決台東縣學業落後的問題。」