Come now, that is a primo strike wing you are talking about! Proven technology (well proven to be old and slow), great spares package (all the old bits from the ones they crashed, suitably straightened), and a guarantee (guaranteed to be cannon fodder for anybody with a 172 and a shotgun).
Why oh why didn't we buy the F16s... now there is an aircraft worth having a go in...
What they should have done with the Skyhawks is what they used to do with old obsolete types... take the weapons out and park them in kids playgrounds. I spent many happy hours as a kid, crawling through an old TBM Avenger in a park in Rotorua. Might as well get some play value out of them.