School????

It's nearly August and here I sit again contemplating what to do about school next year for Solomon. The choice should be easy, the schools in our area are some of the better ones. Enrollment is down, so we could have our pick of public schools. However public school in Tacoma now means full day and they have added an extra half an hour to that full day just to put the cherry on top of what I consider to be a shit sundae.
The co-operative elementary school we've been trying to get up and running is dissolving. It seems to me that the need in the community isn't there like I thought it would be, the level needed to get a school up and running any way.
Homeschooling seems more and more like a reality for my future and I'm not sure if I can pull it off. It is just Kindergarten however and if it doesn't go so well next year we can figure something else out for the following year- no big deal. Spending an extra year at home with your kid, how can that be a bad thing?
Another option would be to combine homeschooling with part-time regular school. I can enroll him and basically tell them when he would be coming and that I would be homeschooling the rest of the time. Of course I'm nervous about the load of guilt I would get from school officials and whether or not they'd be testing him like mad and basically telling me I'm not doing a good job if he falls behind at all. Of course, I can just ignore them and/or tell them to piss off; pull him out if it gets too bad.
What I would love is a non-religious based, drop-off, home schoolers play group. A great space with lots of open-ended toys and things for imaginative play. Maybe I'll start one... but not today. Today I'm baking cookies and making baba ganoush.