In recent years, psychological guidance and after-school tutoring have become a key component of "preferential education" throughout the country. The steady rise in the number of "new children of Taiwan" who are entering school has prompted substantial government investment in preferential education.
類似這種心理輔導、課後學業輔導等課程，近年來已成為全國「優先教學」的重要環節，而政府資源的大量投入，正導因於「新台灣之子」入學人數不斷攀升。