My sister and I began homeschooling in our early years of middle school because of the language barrier when moved to Canada from Taiwan. At that time, the education bureau had just started the option of homeschooling. 

The employees of the bureau did not approve of the “stay at home with your nose in a book and learn without a teacher or hire an expensive private tutor” system at the time and therefore remained quite unhelpful in most circumstances, seeing this method of learning as simply another fad that would die out soon. 

In response to their enthusiasm, my sister and I attempted the opposite and did all our learning away from home, attending various third-party courses hosted by professors who had yet to be beaten down by the rigidity of the school system. We learned to deal with strangers enthusiastically and to sell ourselves as students with bright futures ahead of us (with your help, of course). In return, we would organize what we learned from them into a short review of the teacher and their classes and post these reviews on a Facebook page to help give them more exposure. 

In doing so, we effectively created a detailed and organized catalogue of every one of our courses and had become the leading image of this new way of learning in central Taiwan. Seeing this, the bureau employees began taking an interest in this way of connecting every class to every subject and keeping clear, concise records, making documentation of our progress. 

This new way of education quickly spread toward northern Taiwan and has now become the standard of Taiwan's homeschooling (now called experimental education) and has begun working its way into university application requirements as a must-have all over Taiwan. 

We continued with our experimental education all through high school and began studying at reputable universities. (I was offered a free pass to Taiwan's top university of technology via my status as a competitor in an international competition, but that's another story for another time)