I spent a lot of time in school in counselor's offices discussing various things from my attendance, academic deficiencies, to just being socially inept.

Forgive me for saying, but from your own description it sounds like you had a rough time personally in high school and that probably colors your perceptions.

Schools should be fully engaged with the internet, posting assignments due and should be done completely electronically, we shouldn't have paper involved in anything anymore. The internet has become completely superior to paper based information.

This would be possible in a world where every student had access to their own computer, ipad, and internet connection. That however, is not the case.

Another issue I had was this attitude schools have that you're a piece of shit if you don't wake up at 5am everyday. I was never a morning person, I always had a hard time getting up and I like to stay up late. That has never changed and it never will.

If you're fortunate you'll always find work that matches your sleeping preferences. But I think you'll find many people in the world have to wake up before they'd like, and not many people have sympathy for them.

Most of you on this forums are Americans, but I do know that an handful of you are not American so this post does not apply to your schools but you may be able to relate to this thread.

You are aware that public education varies greatly district to district, and is actually organized by the states with the exception of certain standards and requirments for federal funding? If you plan on condeming all of American education with the brush of your own unpleasant high-school experience, feel free to condemn the rest of the Western-world as well. They tend to start fairly early in the morning too.