Yin Ping, the author of Going to New Zealand, emigrated because she was dissatisfied with Taiwan's educational environment. Her daughter Patricia often failed math in Taiwan, but after two months at a junior high school in New Zealand, her math teacher decided to move her up two grades.
《出走紐西蘭》的作者尹萍，因不滿台灣的教學環境移民紐西蘭，她那在台灣數學常考不及格的女兒小哈，就讀紐國中學兩個月後，學校數學老師便開會決議讓她的女兒連跳兩級。