I once spoke with a teacher who in years past went to Taiwan and worked with education there. This is what he told me (as best as I can remember): "At that time, there was only one major university in Taiwan. Everyone who planned on succeeding academically went to that university, and there were students from all around SE Asia. But when I got there, I was surprised by what I saw: On every story of the building, there were nets for suicide jumpers. The amount of pressure those students were under was tremendous."
This window of opportunity for students was also a window of suicidal potential, which is one of the many things that makes suicide so hard to rationalize.
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