Fear not I'm going to resell it, just that the fact that it has a government logo on boot/shut down and also a permanent notification saying how generous they are has turned me off from using it.
Also spying issues and such.

Model is Galaxy Tab A8 SM-X205 or SM-X200

I think it's a MDM system bound by Knox Cloud, tried to Odin reflash it but sadly it didn't work.

Is it possible to just unlock the bootloader and flash it with a custom ROM? IIRC there is an unofficial Lineage OS for this tablet in xda that I plan to use.

I don't care about Knox and Samsung apps dependent on it so it's ok to trip the fuse for me.

The only thing I'm worried about is Knox cucking me out of the rooting progress and brick the phone.

Would be nice if someone can enlighten me, thanks.

Worth noting that USB debugging is locked out until the Knox enrollment progress is complete so ADB doesn't work.

Got notification to say how generous they are? I guess higher chance now that BN will win. Students everyday get planted with the message of generosity. Majority of the new voters will vote BN then. 

I'm not sure how it's locked.. if they really have spyware, it probably send details that the tab has been activated and continuously being used? Now if you unlocked it and use different ROM, they might detect that the device is no longer active but IMEI still connects to the Internet.. ?