So, usually, most farmers and inhabitants of this region kill kitten as soon as they are born. Sadly enough, it looks like there is no elegant way to do the dirty task. In most instances, some people put them in a canvas bag weighted down with a stone before they threw the whole thing in a river where the kittens drown within a minute (kitten are able to swim as soon as the very day of their birth). Some others throw the kittens against a wall so that they die instantly. It happened sometimes I had to do the dirty task and I found it very painful and saddening; and I even cried sometimes. I never heard of someone doing the sad task with a gun, but I assume, it happens. Veterinarians can sterilize female cats, but in an area where people scarcely make their living, it is too expensive. Beside, that’s the way people use since forgotten times over there.

I don’t think so people living in some isolated French rural areas are much different of their American counterparts. Because they live in a much more isolated fashion than townfolks, they are just less exposed to the tide of left-leaning, tree-hugger, and “universalistic”, and so on propaganda raging in France.

So, my point, which some, doubtless, will find disputable, is that this school principal acted in a typical and very common manner, which is in no way disputable. Doubtless, the man has been as embarrassed as I was when he had to choose the “best” way to end the life of the kitten.
He certainly couldn’t imagine he would be sacrificed as example on the altar of zealous observance to obscure ready-to-consume political correctness for that. I find this case is somehow quite similar to this of the English schoolgirl who got into trouble because she had complained of being placed in a study group with five Urdu-speakers with whom she could not communicate (see: British Schoolgirl Arrested for “Racism” in this same weblog). But the peculiarity one may find in that case is that some self-deluded folks have shrewdly seen in it a chance to demonstrate how able they are to howl louder than the wolves do.

Meanwhile, it didn’t prove to be of any good for the kittens, and it certainly wrecked the life of a school principal somewhere in Northern Minnesota. Such a deed of valor! Such nice demonstration of dedicated patriotism!