drooling camel does not reach the streets of Paris I would have liked - but I could not - participate in the great demonstration of Education which was held last Saturday (January 30), for a lot reasons too numerous to mention here, why do not also affect both the National Education that all public services (hospitals, postal services, transport, etc..), which is being to sacrifice the last few years on the altar of profitability.
But listening to the radio at night, I even regretted not being able to be present learning that led the demonstration walked slowly ... a camel! My pet! Indeed, the brave animal was suitable for several puns tasty, two of them inscribed on placards hung on his back: "The success of our students should not remain a mirage. "And" Ministers come and go, teachers bossent "(both pun on" hump "and parody of the proverb" The dogs bark, the caravan passes. "), And the latter expressed AFP by Gilles Moindrot, Secretary-General of SNUipp FSU (the main union primary): "It symbolizes the dry regime, which applies to the National Education .
In searching the internet for more detailed information (and a picture of the famous camel), I engaged in some bitter reflections are summarized below.
The same text, two paragraphs, describing the presence of the camel head event, appears in more than a dozen different sites and blogs without there ever reference to a source. I know, I know it's commonplace on the internet, but this is the first time I saw this practice so much scale.
amusing little anecdote about this: the title changed from "The camel brave the cold, the teachers also" to "The Camel drool cold, teachers too." Minimal effort or originality somewhat grotesque mistake?
Second shocking finding: several of these blogs and comments on a website dedicated to the protection of animals, it is outraged by the treatment that has been inflicted on this poor camel, or even his " Operations "(with some deviations such as:" When you see the treatment that teachers are doing to animals, we understand that they are doing to the students!). Some
then arise the question, very welcome, whether it is a Bactrian camel (or "Asian" or "humps") or a dromedary (or camel of Arabia "or" bump "), arguing that the former are well accustomed to the freezing cold it was in Paris last Saturday while the latter, poor cabbages tend to have the habit of cooking 50 °. Nobody, however, provided the answer. In fact, under the broad banner "SNUipp" difficult to distinguish whether it is hiding a bump or two, but head of our hairy friend makes me rather look for a Bactrian camel. Even though it would have been a camel or Arabian camel, they are also accustomed to extreme cold at night in the deserts of Sahara and Arabia. But above all the question seems absurd union members have not flown to Abu Dhabi to bring back a camel! It is obvious that this animal lives in France, probably in the Paris region, there is even born, and he does not live in greenhouses during the winter. I do not see what it changed for him to walk the streets of Paris rather than the park. A little less grass to graze, perhaps? We bet we can stay longer without grass in the Gobi Desert that during the few hours of an event of National Education!
Past the issue of cold, I do not see what use we could talk. The burden of placards and banners as seen in the photo seems laughable compared to loads monster that camels carry easily in their regions of origin ...
This whole story reminds me of a beautiful passage from the novel by Michel Tournier, La Goutte d'Or : Idriss, the hero, having played as an extra in a advertising which also included a camel (which, for once, is a camel), and to lead to the slaughter (it will end happily for the Jardin d'Acclimation), runs through Paris with his camel ...
"The silhouette ridiculous and sorry that arise in the gray dawn and rainy Paris amaze passersby and annoyed the policemen. Michel Tournier.
