Up to 10 percent of students in Taiwan can choose this kind of experimental education that take care of the competencies without adhering to the standardized curriculum. And they, these alternative schools, join in a collaborative sharing with the basic educations that are published. But having to enroll in this kind of experimental curriculum and experiment. So, there is a full spectrum of homeschooling, institutional experimental schooling, group experimental schooling, all the way to the public schools that are engaging with these teachers. I am the prime example. I’ve only stayed in public school until I was 14 and I dropped out. I started homeschooling. I never attended a senior high school or a college, but obviously I still know what I’m talking about. So, I think, alternative education is no longer alternative in Taiwan, but rather works like a research arm to the R&D of experimental education.

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