The phrase "a lousy student" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who performs poorly in their studies or does not take their education seriously.
Example: "Despite his intelligence, he was often labeled as a lousy student due to his lack of effort in completing assignments."
Alternatives: "a poor student" or "an underachieving student".
"Perhaps I was a lousy student.
Carlson was, by all accounts, a lousy student, and he now takes pleasure in declaring college overrated.
He was a "lousy student," as he conceded later, failing a philosophy course and getting a D in a journalism class.
By his own assessment, he was a lousy student (he didn't read his first book until he was 16), and wound up taking art classes when he couldn't qualify for medical school.
The camera, shaking with barely controlled rage, lingers on the gray-bearded man as he reads his son the riot act, calling him a "lousy student" and "an obnoxious kid," among other things.
Scholarship or no, I was a lousy student.
The premise is funny and tragic enough--an excellent secondary teacher trapped in a non-supportive state for public education who has terminal cancer and stumbles upon a former lousy student who serves as his gateway drug into organized crime kingpindom.
"It was as if the United States wanted to reward a bad guy, the lousy student, and to punish the good student.
Instead of forcing them into summer catch-up programs, and/or making them repeat grades, we should do everything possible to keep them in school, because the data show that kids who stay around do better than the dropouts even when they are equally lousy students.
And in a particularly baldfaced unsupportable move, HB 7069 says that if Chris does a lousy job as a student at Gotrox Charter Academy, then goes back to public school, the public school has to count all of Chris's failure in their public school grade.
This article describes the growing movement to demand debt forgiveness for the many, many young people who were lured into taking on student debt by rip-off for-profit colleges, like Corinthian and others, who delivered a bad education and then went bankrupt, leaving their students with a lousy education and bad employment prospects but with a large burden of student debt.
