Originally Posted by Gavin

He did kick up a fuss and threaten to go to the board of governors, etc. Didn't do any good. As a kid you get it drummed into your head that you have no rights and the adult teachers, etc are in loco parentis and always know what's right. As I said though he only want to do it so he take a shine to the girls though so in the grand scheme of things he wasn't that bothered to worry about legalities.

If it makes any difference, it was a private school. It was co-ed, but between juniors and 6th form, the kids were completely segregated. The boys had their school buildings on one side and the girls had theirs on the other (with the mixed juniors in the middle). They claimed that as the student kitchens were in the girls' school building and the activity was part of the girls' school cirriculum, it was not available to him, in much the same way as a boy was ineligible to play netball or join the girls for biology classes.