What was the main reason so few children went to school during the progressive era?
1. parents needed their children’s at home.
2. schools did not teach children useful skills.
3.there were not enough schools for the children.
4.there were no laws requiring children to attend school.

1 - Parents needed their children's help at home - typically helping raise younger siblings or with the field work.

Compulsory education laws were passed in 1840's - well before the Progressive era (1890-1920)

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the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to native american children on reservations. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the bureau of indian affairs (bia) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation carlisle indian industrial school.