Sentence examples similar to second rate school from inspiring English sources

So to my conservative friends I say this: If you're concerned about the direction of our country, get off your rear end and contact your legislators and tell them you've had enough of reckless spending, politicians who don't plan for the future, and second rate schools.

Because of the governor's dealings, LSU transformed from a third rate school in 1930 to the largest university in the south by 1936.

But what most people regard as a second-rate school may compensate in other ways.

"Some lose the opportunity to go to a really first-rate school.

Residents of Scarsdale have long enjoyed a reputation for supporting the development of youth by building a first-rate school system and, more recently, by taking a stand against excessive testing at the expense of quality education.

Many of America's best and brightest will experience rejection, perhaps for the first time, and then get a fat envelope from a first-rate school.

You'll do a couple of years at some third-rate school in the boonies and then move on to a better gig".

"But my child deserves to be near her father, and I wouldn't put her in second-rate schools in South Central.

He bounced in and out of second-rate schools, and got most of his education at home — enough Latin to be a decent Latinist and enough Greek to pretend.

Yet, cowed by teachers' unions, Democrats have too often resisted reform and stood by as generations of disadvantaged children have been cemented into an underclass by third-rate schools.

I am writing these words today only because the inequality that barred my parents and many of my peers from first-rate schools was eased in time to save my life.