What’s the overlap between “wants indie games” and “students who don’t work hard on their grades but could”?

There’s a danger that students will see indie games as being “games that aren’t good enough to be worth anything” which could be reinforced by them being given away by schools.

What would the schools get out of it?

If this worked, would it undermine students’ intrinsic motivation and set them up for failure further down the line?