When do child actors go to school?

In New York, auditions legally have to be after 3 p.m. when school is no longer in session. That said, we would frequently get audition times of 3:10 or 3:15 p.m. read more

When they are not scheduled for work that day, they go to regular school or home school. The regular school teacher often resents the child actor that makes more money than they do. Kids are often just given busy work and not real schooling. Often the child actor is too tired from acting, still in acting mode and can't revert easily. read more

That said, we would frequently get audition times of 3:10 or 3:15 p.m., which meant pulling her out of school early enough to change clothes, drive into NYC from Westchester County, find parking, and go upstairs with 10–15 minutes to spare for signing in and looking at copy. read more