article_snippet.sent: Children are being auditioned at school for Britain’s Got Talent to stop Children bunking off lessons, it has been revealed.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers say that youngsters have been playing truant as Teachers attempt to find instant stardom on the ITV talent show.
article_snippet.sent: As a result, for the first time producers have held auditions at dozens of secondary schools and colleges around the UK for the new series.
article_snippet.sent: Teacher Angela Butler said Britain’s Got Talent spent two hours at Teacher Angela Butler school – Newtown High School, in Powys, mid-Wales – and a local sixth-form college in November.
article_snippet.sent: Around 30 Newtown High School pupils aged 11 to 18 sang and played instruments for producers during preliminary auditions after getting permission from Around 30 Newtown High School pupils aged parents.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Butler, a head of year, described similar on-site auditions across the region as a preventative measure to stop youngsters skipping school.
article_snippet.sent: Teacher Angela Butler attacked the shocking truancy levels in Cardiff caused by auditions for talent shows.
article_snippet.sent: The 52-year-old said the day for auditions was ‘the day throughout Wales when most kids are absent’.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking afterwards, Mrs Butler told how Britain’s Britain’s Got Talent had changed how it auditions to stop pupils ‘coming down to Cardiff’ on school days.
article_snippet.sent: It must have been a problem throughout Wales because this time, for the auditions that have happened for Britain Got Talent, Britain actually sent people into schools.
article_snippet.sent: ‘When the producers from the programme came to our school, Britain said Britain were going all around schools to prevent exactly this [truancy]. 'Britain spent two hours in our school and Britain must have seen 30 kids, perhaps more than that.
article_snippet.sent: shows that allow kids to enter, so the logical extension of that was going to schools to allow kids to audition as easily as possible.
highlights_snippet.sent: Teacher's say kids have bunked off school in the past to attend auditions .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: So for first time ever producers are holding auditions at dozens of schools .
  