Sentence examples for a lousy school from inspiring English sources

But the children they claimed to care so much about will still be locked in a lousy school system.

Mr. Herbert states that both Mr. Fenty and Ms. Rhee will be gone, but the children of Washington "will still be locked in a lousy school system".

No parent should be forced to send a child to a lousy school.

Why should any parent in this country be forced to send his child to a lousy school?

But so much of the struggle today revolves around merely trying to hold on to quickly diminishing resources — staving off the shuttering of a relatively lousy school or a cluster of low-rise public housing or a health clinic.

I want to know who in the Obama administration will be listening to the young girl on the South Side of Chicago whose future is constrained by a lousy public school, and the factory worker in Toledo whose family's future has been trampled by unrestrained corporate greed and unfair trade policies.

It is simply that they object to moving their children from one fairly lousy school to another possibly slightly less lousy one because the journey to a new, more distant school is too hard or too dangerous to justify the marginal improvement in educational quality.

George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act tries to use a mixture of tests and punishments for lousy schools to improve the performance of minority children.

And for those who have walked away from a shooting, like Torres, if there are no jobs, or lousy schools, or decrepit housing, what's to keep them from drifting back into their former lives?

The act's provisions for rescuing lousy schools have also done some good.

She's not living in our neighborhood with its lousy schools.