Do you want to sing con opera and serve the dishes? " Faced with the question of his elders, the 12-year-old Xiaoyang answered: "Yes! After she graduated from elementary school in 2007, her father Liu Hongqing decided to let her daughter Xiaoyang leave the institutional school. In the morning she recited "Four Books and Five Classics" and practiced opera at Conque, and in the afternoon she studied English and painted. Her parents even took her to study with famous teachers from all walks of life, exploring another path of growth outside of the traditional classroom. Xiaoyang's story is not an isolated one. Around 2010, with the rise of China's middle class, some parents tried to resist factionalism and competition for higher education, leading to the "homeschooling" trend. A 2013 survey by the 21st Century Education Research Institute showed that about 18,000 students across China were separated from regular campuses. However, logging out is not completely worry-free. In order to prepare for art school, Xiaoyang entered a closed training class. In front of her peers who already knew the social rules, she felt she was still stuck in the mentality of an elementary school student. Before heading to school, she fell into depression. She cried and told her father at night, but his father asked her: "Why are you afraid? After more than a year of hard work, in June 2011, she was accepted to an art school within the system and continued to improve her drawing skills. Later, as official policy tightened, such distributed family experiments in home education gradually receded. However, the question left by this experiment still hangs: is education about achieving global "success", or allowing children to live on their own? Click the link to read the story of Chinese homeschooling.

Do you want to sing con opera and serve the dishes? " Faced with the question of his elders, the 12-year-old Xiaoyang answered: "Yes! After she graduated from elementary school in 2007, her father Liu Hongqing decided to let her daughter Xiaoyang leave the institutional school. In the morning she recited "Four Books and Five Classics" and practiced opera at Conque, and in the afternoon she studied English and painted. Her parents even took her to study with famous teachers from all walks of life, exploring another path of growth outside of the traditional classroom. Xiaoyang's story is not an isolated one. Around 2010, with the rise of China's middle class, some parents tried to resist factionalism and competition for higher education, leading to the "homeschooling" trend. A 2013 survey by the 21st Century Education Research Institute showed that about 18,000 students across China were separated from regular campuses. However, logging out is not completely worry-free. In order to prepare for art school, Xiaoyang entered a closed training class. In front of her peers who already knew the social rules, she felt she was still stuck in the mentality of an elementary school student. Before heading to school, she fell into depression. She cried and told her father at night, but his father asked her: "Why are you afraid? After more than a year of hard work, in June 2011, she was accepted to an art school within the system and continued to improve her drawing skills. Later, as official policy tightened, such distributed family experiments in home education gradually receded. However, the question left by this experiment still hangs: is education about achieving global "success", or allowing children to live on their own? Click the link to read the story of Chinese homeschooling.