Lai Cheng-cheng, a former cram-school proprietor currently doing a year of "practice" internship at Tunglung Elementary School in Pingtung, observes that with the media constantly bombarding people with stories of "English fever" in elementary schools, rural parents grow concerned. Sure enough, their children end up at cram schools.
開過補習班、目前是屏東東隆國小實習老師的賴承誠說，媒體不斷報導國小英語熱，讓很多鄉下家長越來越心慌，也開始把孩子往補習班送。