This is all really interesting to read about. Thanks for sharing JF.
I'm curious what age you or other families plan to unschool to? Will they attend high school or will you introduce home schooling for those teenage years? How will these kids be prepared for Uni/tafe for example if/when they want to go? Would they be in a position to apply without on paper schooling iykwim?
Alright this is a big question people ask! So yes, unschooled children can attend university or TAFE, in theory anyone can - they can enter similarly to a mature age student by way of exams to demonstrate knowledge, they can attend bridging courses or classes, they can have portfolios made by them and their parents and interviews - it depends on the age they want to start, the course they want to take and who they are and what they've done before that point. Universities love motivated self directed learners and all the unschoolers I know of that have wanted to attend university have been able to make that happen. Because an unschooler has been encouraged to pursue their passions they will usually start to realise their aspirations and interests earlier than the traditional age one leaves high school so they can begin to specialise and steer their learning in that direction. In the end, who knows how things will look in the future for unschoolers trying to enter further education, my eldest is only just 5 so she has at least 10yrs before that is something to consider, maybe there will have been an educational revolution by then (one can dream haha).

Unschooling doesn't have a graduation date and no, we don't intend to ever move back to home educating or the traditional schooling system (never say never). You don't need to. If at some stage a child says to you, I really want to learn trigonometry or I need to know this because I would like to become an engineer or you explain that to them when they say they would like to be an engineer that they might need to understand trigonometry then you find a way that will help your child learn that - so yeah like an online course (there are so many free courses out there if you want to learn things) or a text book or a class or a tutor or an app or possibly some sort of hands on exploration if they are a kinetic learner (maybe start designing and building simpler things and increasing difficulty). So you help them find whatever it is they need to reach their goal and support them in that. If either child tells me they would like to try school then we would first try to understand what it is they feel they need or want from it and make that happen in our home but if we couldn't we would support them in going to school and they could choose to come back to home educating and unschooling at any point. I mean really, for the rest of their lives I will be here to help guide, support and encourage whether they want to learn something at 5 or 25 or 50.

There is something written somewhere that I will try to find that outlines some of the things some grown unschoolers have pursued but it explains that unschoolers seem to do well in university (or college) because they are there in the pursuit of interest and knowledge rather than a piece of paper and shows the diverse things they do end up doing. It comes down to the fact that they want to be there, so they will do what they need to do to make it happen and benefit from the experience.