There is nothing wrong with the intention, the problem is result. I hope I'm wrong, but on my experience of these kind of things is that the popularity is short lived. Soon, some new idea comes along and removes the just implemented old new way.
So using already acquired data and a system to put that data into a game world is a worse use of money than your idea of what.. taking every school child in the country of a tour of the entire country?
Still no. I do silly replies when people assume too much instead of asking first. I todays society people just making up other peoples arguments to fit their agenda.
How about a school trip instead?