To ensure success in the entrance examinations, therefore, parents used to send their children to supplementary schools for "cram" lessons, and in the process, impaired the healthy development of the nation's young people.
由於國小畢業人數激增，以致下一階段的初中、初職雖不斷增設，仍無法完全容納，形成了嚴重的升學競爭問題。教育當局有鑑於此，深怕因此造成無法德、智、體、群四育並進，僅偏重課業的傳授，而影響學童身心的均衡發展。