Fundamental Logic

     Many of you know that I complain about our school system. I think it's broken. I think it hasn't acknowledged the invention of the internet and how it's changed thinking, research etc. Anyway that's a different post.
    I flew to St. Louis on Wednesday. I had a carry on bag. The flight was on a small regional jet where anything larger than a briefcase doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. For that reason the flight utilizes the sky check system. For those of you who aren't familiar this means beside the stairs of the jet is a rack. You place your bag on it and the rack is then rolled to the back of the plane and loaded into a cargo hold. When you reach your destination the rack is brought out and your bag is returned. In St. Louis we exited the jet through one of those tunnels so the bags are brought to the door of the tunnel. After waiting until everyone else had their bag I notified the baggage handler mine hadn't come. He said it obviously didn't get loaded. I explained that I hadn't checked it but had carried it to the plane myself so it's virtually impossible that it didn't get loaded. He then stated that it hadn't been loaded or it would be here. I again attempted to explain how unlikely that was. The handler proceeded to explain to me that 98% of all luggage arrives safely however mine was obviously in that 2% that doesn't. I explained to him that I was quite confident the 2% that get lost were bags that are checked at the counter and go with the rest of the checked luggage requiring sorting by tag, transportation to the correct plane etc. as opposed to ones that are hand carried by the owner and placed on a rack beside the plane. He then explained again (clearly becoming exasperated) that 2% of luggage doesn't make it. I finally gave up and started to walk inside to find someone who could help me......or maybe actually go back to the plane and check? Not surprisingly there was a banging on the door and another handler handed my bag to the one I was talking to and said: "missed one".
     This is exactly what I'm talking about. We need to teach fundamental problem solving skills in school because this kind of thing happens quite often if you look around and watch people. Our schools churn out
smart people just not logical ones. That's great if you need someone to write you a book report but I want my luggage.