"poor mentality" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe a negative mindset or attitude. Here is an example: "John's constant complaining and lack of motivation showed his poor mentality towards work."
Several states have bought in to this "blame-the-poor" mentality to the point where they require drug testing before a person can get assistance.
Schools like Sherwood, and teachers like Mr. Ramos, are on the front lines, struggling against family mobility, neighborhood violence and the "pobrecito," or "poor little thing," mentality of low academic expectations.
"I don't think that other teams don't play 100% but their mentality is poor in that game because they don't think they can do anything.
His department has been accused of having weak management, ineffective control and poor governance; a fortress mentality, a "good news" reporting culture, a lack of transparency, inadequate financial control, and ineffective oversight.
This mentality of, "poor me, I've been oppressed so I am going to kill somebody... .. How does it help?
Bratton, who is best known for developing and implementing the COMSTAT system during his first run as NYPD commissioner under Rudi Giuliani in the mid-1990s, also helped usher in the cops-as-an-occupying-force mentality in poor neighborhoods in NYC.
However, it often fails in patients who showed sedated or comatose mentality with poor cooperation during the procedure.
"And our elected leaders in government have often been some of the poorest examples of this mentality," he says.
Unfortunately, we live in a society where more and more frequently, people are being taught that they are not responsible for their own actions, and our elected leaders in government have often been some of the poorest example of this mentality.
The wide-ranging reforms to Britain's benefits system have been beset by "weak management, poor governance" and a "fortress mentality" that has so far wasted £34 million of taxpayers' money, the Government's own auditors conclude today.
The government's own auditors have concluded that Duncan Smith's flagship reform is an IT Horlicks – not their exact words, you understand, though they did chuck in "weak management", "poor governance" and a "fortress mentality".
