Compulsory cooking

The English government is introducing compulsory cooking lessons for all teenagers from 2011, as another step to combat obesity. Headteachers are grumbling because only 6 months ago the government said that they would have a more hands-off approach as far as curriculum was concerned.

I'm wondering, though, about the organisation of these in multicultural schools, which most are these days....
some children eat meat
some don't
some eat eggs and milk products
some don't
some eat pork
some don't
some eat beef
some don't
some eat kosher, separating milk products and meat products
some don't

and quite a few of these may not wish to use utensils, or be in the room at the same time, as the foods they find offensive. Will we get sick notes for cookery classes?

Now find recipes pleasing all these groups, for a two year cookery course! The market for TVP might explode.....