Widening access to Jewish schools

As soon as School begins again, one of my major projects for this year is to get our idea of a Vocational Training Unit off the ground. The Jewish community thinks that all of its children will be successful professionals, sailing through Graduate School to a well-paid academically-grounded life. Yet we disenfranchise a huge constituency of perfectly wonderful children who are simply unsuited to the double-curriculum, highly academic Jewish school curriculum. (A former colleague of mine in Montreal termed these kids 'JDSD' - Jewish Day School Disabled'). So, in our new building north of Toronto (hopefully - opening September 2006) we will have a non-academic vocational training option, for students who will directly enter the workplace after High School. So far we have some proposals, a good committee, and some space on the plans. But what skills should we teach? Any suggestions?? They have to be 'sociologically appropriate' -- ie we could teach food services, but it wouldn't be useful to teach, say, log-rolling or forestry (this is Canada, remember), as there aren't many forests in the Jewish areas of town. This will be a 'first', I believe, in any mainstream Jewish school. There are similar schemes in NY and Baltimore (at Yeshivot), and a slightly different one in Florida. Will Jewish parents send their kids to such a course??