The progressives argued that instead of children doing the work of grownups they should be children and go to school. Their main argument was that in the long run, it will more benefit society if children went to school and got an education instead of working in a strenuous and dangerous environment in the industry.
Because shools became way too overpopulated. Some neighbourhood's are bigger then other others thus some schools had a lack of kids and some schools had too many kids.