It seems to me that if you took a class of high school students and tasked them with the 100 day melon challenge in Minecraft, you will have prepared them with all the mathmatic, engineering, and research ability they need to navigate society.

They have to install mods for building, research what builds to make and why, know how much material they need, where to get it, learn about logic circuits+signal propagation in redstone, learn about the exponential curve of growth, and learn how to focus on a grind for an hour or two at a time.

Then say that whoever has the most melons gets a crown they can wear for the rest of the semester and they'll be off to the races.

Which is to say that, in terms of applied academics, wouldn't you be better off with access to Minecraft?