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To be honest I think it would go unused, for several reasons:
- teachers are specifically their to teach the program in the curriculum, nothing else. Unfortunately that does not extend to a practical session actually looking through a telescope.
- it involves having to set aside an evening after school to show them what lies above. Very few teachers will do that.
- it also presupposes the teachers have half an idea how to use it, and what to point it at in the sky. I can't think of one that ever did that I've known.
- it also assumes someone has the ability to look after it and maintain it, or fix it when it breaks. This will probably be the end of the telescope.
I'm also aware of a couple of schools that were given telescopes that lay in parts in the back of labs, unused for decades - until some of the students realised they'd found something quite interesting and were sufficiently keen to put it into use.
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