Also regrettable is that in the half century since the ROC government moved to Taiwan, only five or six aborigines have served as principals at Hualien's more than 100 primary schools, in spite of the fact that aborigines make up some 24 % of the county's population. Ami songs echo through Tafalong Success at a young age did not translate into a high position for Tiway Sayion.
而政府遷台半世紀來，在花蓮縣市一百多所小學中，原住民校長仍然只有五、六位，和當地百分之二十四左右的原住民人口比例有不小的落差。