Sentence examples for lousy students from inspiring English sources

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.

"Perhaps I was a lousy student.

Carlson was, by all accounts, a lousy student, and he now takes pleasure in declaring college overrated.

"It was as if the United States wanted to reward a bad guy, the lousy student, and to punish the good student.

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.

(Despite being a lousy student, he was always a big reader).

I was a lousy student but I memorized the calorie and carbohydrate content in literally hundreds of foods and recorded everything I ate; then I watched myself become thinner and thinner and thinner.

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.