I hope that they will choose to learn at home until tertiary level education.
We have a very active homeschooling community and an equally active (although smaller) unschooling community here where we live.
My kids do a huge variety of activities and classes and what we cannot find I create or cajole someone within the various groups to create or start. There are clubs for sports and cultural and language activities in every community pretty much world wide I am sure by now. There are youth orchestras, chess clubs, robotics, science, drama, music, soccer, rugby, cricket, swimming, (insert sport of choice here) clubs just right by us. Even baseball and basketball (although they are not big here!).
We don't have AP anything in south africa anyway and since South Africa at a public schooling level now offers what is arguably the lowest ranked education in the world, I am not hesitant to say I don't really want them there. Acceleration is not done here in public schools and rarely in private schools, and very few schools offer enrichment of any sort for any child. Also, even if they show mastery of the work, no school public or private would take a child drastically younger than the regular grade age into said grade. (max is 1 year younger).
Aside from all that, I LOVE the lifestyle of home/unchooling - we recently did a 1 month road trip around the country (just me and the boys) and it was amazing! We get to go to places without crowds and queues and we get to travel a lot more often now that we can go outside of school breaks. No homework or tests unless they ask for them, and less time doing formal "tick the box" work and a lot more time exploring topics of interest (like genetics, Jurassic era, democracy, how to service a bicycle, chemistry, pre algebra and this is just in the past 8 months and almost always with hands on activities and outings.)
For university, if they choose to go, they will most likely do the internationally recognised Cambridge school leaving certification, which has 3 levels. They will skip at least the first if not the second as well and do A levels straight up over 2 years. Universities here do not like kids under 17/18 anyway, so we would have a struggle either way.
We have other family plans and then we will try get them into the local university around age 15 (Aiden) if he still chooses to go. If not, then by that age they will have a range of skills that will enable them to run their own businesses, do trades or apprenticeships or at least be ready to explore their passions.
