In fact, private-sector publishers have been printing some peripheral textbooks for some years now. But this is the first time the core curriculum itself has been destandardized. Thus the NICT and private publishers have gone all out to put different faces on the uniform body of curriculum standards.
民間出版商加入教科書編輯，已行之有年，但是家長們所關心的學科開放，這是頭一遭，於是包括編譯館、十餘家民間出版商，紛紛大顯身手，在同一個課程標準下編出不同樣貌。