Moving to Taoyuan with an 11-year-old

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I’m going to add this here, because if you’re unfamiliar with the English Villages in Taiwan, my above post sounds like a blanket statement of negativity. It is, but it’s not unfounded (scroll down to post 14 and down):

Curriculum in Public Schools (or lack of...)

My first job in Taiwan was with an English Village where we would bus the kids to our school and give lessons in a classroom that had specific themes. Each classroom different: Hotel, Newsroom, Airport, Grocery Mart… Every month we would pick one classroom and do exactly the same lesson (based on a very formal lesson plan) multiple times a day. That was the epitome of deja vu. Still, it didn’t bother me because I was still finding things that worked at the end of the month.