"There are some children here who lack even the bare necessities of warm shelter and food," Ah-Yuan says. "How can you expect them to muster the energy to worry about keeping up with their schoolwork?" He himself last year helped three junior-high girls prepare to take the basic competency test, and was surprised to find that they had difficulty even performing division at a third- or fourth-grade level.
阿元說，自己去年陪幾位國 3 女生拚基測，驚訝地發現，她們竟然連小學三、四年級的除法都有問題，而當時離基測只剩半年。