Homeschooling and Modern Ideals

Since the beginning of recorded history, the idea of educating children has been firmly in place. Only in the past two hundred years or so the idea of sending a child to one person with many other children has become commonplace. In the past forty years the regulation of the materials students learn has come to the forefront. this idea that one person who has a certificate to say that they went through special training has overtaken the idea that mothers were the best teacher for their young children. this may have come with the migration of families from the Midwest to the west coast and the inability for the mothers to teach their children while traveling the long distance to the coast. this could also have come about when Horace Mann started the first school in Ohio. This change in ideals has often led to the ridicule of the children who are still being taught at home. The children in traditional schools call these children names and tease them about not being like everyone else. Do you think that the change from homeschooling to traditional schooling has led to the chastisement of children who are different? How would you deal with a child who was ridiculing another for the way they were home schooled and brought up different? Would you ever consider placing you child into mainstream schools after homeschooling them in earlier years?
~Emilie