Kindergarten... Ack!!!!!

I'm so sick of thinking and worrying about my son's school next year! I went to a Kindergarten Fair last night, there was a panel of kindergarten teachers we could ask questions. I was really hoping they would alleviate my fears. The more I sat and listened the more ill I felt. So half day kindergarten, the children do, reading, writing, math & science! No time for recess, no time for any sort of unstructured free play time to work on things that are actually developmentally appropriate for children of that age. You know, those little trivial things like learning how to get along with other human beings, conflict resolution, problem solving. Nothing important... Ugh, there's that ill feeling in my stomach again. Oh yeah, and then they send the kid home with math homework... in kindergarten! No thank you. No thank you. I don't think so.
So what's my alternative? Well, I will still go make a time and sit in a local kindergarten class to get a first hand idea of what things are like. I was hoping part-time public kindergarten would be my back-up plan if our co-op school falls through. Here's our website: www.tacomavillageschool.org If we don't get at least a couple of more active, committed parents I'm afraid I'm all done. There's one woman I'm having a really hard time working with and if it's just her and the rest of us, we will just be spinning our wheels.
The funny thing is, after I spouted off my mouth at the fair about my fears and the teachers did their best to alleviate them. I had two teachers come up to me afterwards and say, you're right, things are scary right now.
The Waldorf people approached me as well. I've spoken with a few of the Waldorf moms in the past and I will go check out the open house. I would like to learn more. Waldorf seems like what I want but I'm not sure if I agree completely with their philosophy. I also know we can't get our selves locked into that kind of tuition. Even if we could afford it for Solomon we have two other kids to get through school and then college!
I'm hoping our school idea will pan out. There are many supportive people in the community who think it's a great idea. It's just so hard to try and keep it affordable, with all the start up costs, rent, teacher's pay, etc.. and as many people who think it's a good idea, we aren't getting very many bites right now.