Su Chen-chang, chief executive in Pingtung County, "sneaked out ahead" even before the Ministry of Education approved of bilingual education. With an eye to the many ethnic groups in Pingtung, he initiated bilingual education simultaneously in Taiwanese, Hakka, Rukai, and Paiwan (each in combination with Mandarin Chinese), getting quite a response.
屏東縣的蘇貞昌縣長，則在教育部尚未開放雙語教學時就「偷跑」，並兼顧屏東縣內的不同族群，以閩南語、客家、魯凱、排灣四語並行，獲得頗多迴響。