After more than a decade of educational reforms, a process marked by potholes and incessant controversy, most parents still view grades as the all-important gauge of education. Educators and parents unwilling to goose-step to the latest mainstream whims, however, have established experimental elementary schools, including Forest Primary School and Seed's Primary School in the north, and Miaopu Montessori School and Sarkar School in central and southern Taiwan.
十多年來風風火火的教育改革爭議不斷，多數家長依然以分數做為學習指標，然而一群不願追隨主流價值的教育人士與家長，先後在北部成立森林小學、種籽學苑，中南部也有苗圃社區合作小學、沙卡小學等體制外學校。