Sentence examples for underachieving student from inspiring English sources

An underachieving student, he was shipped to Vietnam as a Navy medic.

The rosy-cheeked Englishman had the kind of dopey sullenness you might find in an underachieving student at the Hogwarts detention room.

Instead of celebrating and encouraging students who exhibit extraordinary talent in a given field, the author seeks to relegate them to the rank and file of the average or underachieving student and has the audacity to pronounce it "an injustice to allow students to attempt science research before they master the technology only a university can provide".

Factors such as large classes, teacher workloads, and the lack of proper training to ensure that the teacher is an expert in their subject can all turn the good intentions behind the no-fail policy into simply passing the burden of an underachieving student onto another teacher.

The governor took control of the district in December, saying he was fed up with crumbling buildings, underachieving students and violence.

The programs are typically one or two years behind grade level, he said, and aimed at what he considered underachieving students.

You ignore the reality that these motivated young people will lose out on a chance at advancing themselves and, more important, will not be part of classes of underachieving students who desperately need their presence.

But hey, at least there's a decent chance that your children will be moping as they hang around the house, thanks to the city's new mandatory summer school program for underachieving students.

It will also be used to provide special help to underachieving students in the state's most needy schools, often by holding classes after school, by offering summer classes and by training parents in reading instruction.

Mr. Castellani voiced strong support for the accountability principles underlying the original law and warned that the draft would allow too many schools to "game the system" by hiding the records of underachieving students.

Teachers are often surprised, and pleased, to see many of their most reticent, "underachieving" students actively join in the discussion of philosophical ideas.