Li Ya-ching, director of planning for the PCEC and also the founder of the Seedlings School, notes that the PCEC was initiated by parents and students at Pei Cheng, and only approved by the city Bureau of Education after two-and-a-half years of lobbying by its advocates.
北政實驗計畫主持人、也是種籽學院的創辦人李雅卿指出，這個實驗班是由北政國中學生家長髮起的，向教育局爭取了兩年半終於通過。