If there’s less abuse happening in homeschooling than in regular schooling, a policy of “let’s impose burdens on homeschooling to crack down on abuse in homeschooling” without a similar crackdown on abuse in non-home-schooling does not decrease abuse.
You can see something similar with self-driving cars. It is bad if a self-driving car crashes. It would be good to do things that reduce that. But if you get to a point where self-driving cars are safer than regular driving, and you continue to crack down on self-driving cars but not on regular driving, this is not good for safety overall.
It depends on efficiency of the interventions you’d come up with (some may not be much of a “burden” at all) and on the elasticity with which parents who intend to homeschool are turned away by “burdens”. You make a good point but what you say is not generally true—it totally depends on the specifics of the situation. (Besides, didn’t the cited study say that both rates of abuse were roughly equal? I don’t think anyone suggested that public schooled kids have [edit: drastically] higher abuse rates than home schooled ones? Was it 37% vs 36%?)
If there’s less abuse happening in homeschooling than in regular schooling, a policy of “let’s impose burdens on homeschooling to crack down on abuse in homeschooling” without a similar crackdown on abuse in non-home-schooling does not decrease abuse.
You can see something similar with self-driving cars. It is bad if a self-driving car crashes. It would be good to do things that reduce that. But if you get to a point where self-driving cars are safer than regular driving, and you continue to crack down on self-driving cars but not on regular driving, this is not good for safety overall.
It depends on efficiency of the interventions you’d come up with (some may not be much of a “burden” at all) and on the elasticity with which parents who intend to homeschool are turned away by “burdens”. You make a good point but what you say is not generally true—it totally depends on the specifics of the situation. (Besides, didn’t the cited study say that both rates of abuse were roughly equal? I don’t think anyone suggested that public schooled kids have [edit: drastically] higher abuse rates than home schooled ones? Was it 37% vs 36%?)