Another telling example is English teaching. In recent years, the age at which children in Taiwan start learning English has been constantly falling. Many counties and cities have even "jumped the gun" by disregarding the Ministry of Education's requirement that English teaching should start in the fifth year of elementary school, and have begun to teach it from the first year.
再以學英文一事為例，台灣近年來學習英文年齡不斷往下延伸，許多縣市甚至「偷跑」，無視教育部小五開始學英文的規定，從小一就開始教起英文。