When the doctors talked to the boy's parents, they discovered that he had always ranked among the top in his class, but when sections were divided according to ability and he entered the top class, his rank fell into the thirties, and his mother said, "If your rank is in the thirties, how are you going to test into a good high school?"
醫師跟父母詳談後發現，孩子的功課從小名列前茅，但能力分班進入前段班後，名次一下子掉到三十幾名，媽媽說：「三十幾名要怎麼跟人家考高中！」