Leaving home lugging his book bag at 7 ︰ 00 am, he'd take not only a lunch box but a "dinner box" as well. With marks "stalled in the single digits," he was quickly losing confidence and started feigning illness to avoid school.
當時，念國中的兒子每天早上七點就背著大書包，提著二個便當到學校，當他在學校成績「不到二位數字」，對自己愈來愈沒有信心時，開始裝病不去上學。