You/they were lucky, I hated school K-12. I even walked out of the graduation ceremony once I had my diploma in my hand.
I remember once, when my son was in kindergarten, he over heard his older sister saying that she didn’t want to go to school (that was a completely different situation), and he was just amazed. He looked at her, wide eyed, and said, “You don’t like school????” “I love school, you learn something new every day. Things changed a little by the time he got to high school, but he still liked seeing the kids. He was just very popular. I think that life is just easier and more pleasant for very good looking people, especially if they are nice on top of it.