If homeschoolers are targeted, it isn’t exactly “random”.
That’s a non sequitur. There is a vast chasm of oversight between home schooled children and children attending a public or private school.
The biggest problem I have with local oversight on home schooled children is that they prefer to use a stick instead of a carrot and it seems, at least in the conservative news that the recommended remedy is to take the children away from the parents or levy scurrilous child abuse charges.
There are so many more helpful and constructive ways to help parents home school, but they’re never explored due to loss of funds to the school district and the influence of the public sector teachers unions.