In 1994 then-mayor (and current ROC president) Chen Shui-bian was holding a series of "dates with the people." During one of these, a group delivered the following petition: "We are mothers who have chosen to be full-time homemakers so that we can raise and teach our own children.
民國八十三年，在台北市政府舉辦市長「與民有約」時，幾位家長提出一份在家自學的請願書：「我們是一群為了親自教養下一代而放下工作的全職母親，即將面臨孩子入學年齡。