I agree with your son. I hated school as a child and would often pretend to be sick so I didn’t have to go. Now I’m 76 but I still hate school, although I love learning. I don’t have children but if I did, I would do my best to find some good tutors and home school them, plus take them traveling and teaching them foreign languages as much as possible. When I was a child my parents had friends from all over the world who told us all about their adventures. That was so much more interesting than school could ever be.