Lagarde Still On The World Stage?

[vetuste_ennemi]

(BBC on US interest rates). I thought she'd been banged up for something or other.

[jourdain2]

She was found guilty of some financial impropriety on a biggish scale, but it was somehow regarded as innocuous. We are in EU-land, after all.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Bien entendu, Jourdain!

[jno]

you don't necessarily have your expertise confiscated when you've been to court.

[woofgang]

True. Martha Stewart can still host a mean dinner party.

[jourdain2]

I'm not sure that your argument holds water, jno. As an English teacher, if I somehow became aware of the A-level question paper and used that to teach my students to do well; I think I would (if found-out) be barred from teaching exam level at the very least. I certainly would not have kept my job, no matter how good I was at teaching English It's called cheating.

[jno]

she was found guilty of negligence, not cheating; that doesn't render her unfit to comment on affairs.

[jourdain2]

Either way, jno, she wasn't doing her job as it was supposed to have been done. I'll change my tack and suppose that I taught the wrong texts (it does happen - happened to the daughter of a friend) that would be negligence and I think that the result would be the same.

[KARL]

Her current post is that of managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which does not belong to the EU and has little or nothing to do with the EU as such (189 member countries). Any teacher found guilty of misconduct on the job would normally be no less intellectually capable of teaching after the event as when given the job in the first instance. Someone who wants to vent determined dislike of the EU will continue doing so after getting the facts wrong, just like before making that discovery.

[jno]

I don't know, jourdain, if in your capacity as English teacher you were a leading authority on Dickens, accidentally teaching a work by Thackeray instead wouldn't lessen your ability to discuss Dickens. People make mistakes, which may damage their reputation but doesn't necessarily affect their knowledge.

[jourdain2]

Wow! Nice.

[anneasquith]

Slightly side tracking, she has nice dress sense .

[jourdain2]

^^ Not you jno . Point is, yes, still really good at Dickens and Thackeray was an accident - I'm certain that I would have been sidelined for some time.

[jno]

your employers mght have sidelined you, jourdain, but that wouldn't stop you discussing Dickens on the BBC (or AB), and rightly so. Your opinions don't become wrong or worthless.