Dustin Hoffman

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

American Actor

Stanley Crouch

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

American Critic

Frank Sinatra

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

American Singer

Richard Thaler

Even if we grade on a very generous curve, many Americans flunk when it comes to financial literacy.

American Economist

Kate Beckinsale

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

English Actress

Erma Bombeck

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

American Journalist

Robert Kiyosaki

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

American Author

Stephen J. Cannell

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

American Producer

Steve Kornacki

I almost flunked pre-calculus back in high school.

Walker Percy

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

American Writer

Flunk denotes achieving below the required standard, often in academic settings.

Negative Outcome

Flunk is informal and might be inappropriate in formal educational writings or announcements.

Informal Usage

'Flunk out' implies failing to the point of having to leave the course or school.

Stricter Context

Flunk can suggest avoiding something because you're scared of failing at it.

Fear of Failure

The verb is more typical in informal spoken English, not in formal written language.

Colloquial Tone

Using 'flunk' may imply a sense of disappointment or frustration with yourself or others.

Emotional Weight

 you get kids flowers you give them food and you give them sunshine and enthusiasm you can bring a rag back to life I have 400 kids from the Pittsburgh Public School System that come to me every day of the week for arts education and these are children who are flunking out of public school and last year I put

Bill Strickland:...

 Like legions of other children, I came from an abusive household that I narrowly escaped with my life. I already had two epically failed marriages underneath my belt. I'd flunked out of college not once but twice and maybe even a third time that I'm not going to tell you about.

The beauty of being a...

 and yet I very rarely see it in the movies that we know and love. In fact, this week I went to see a very high-quality movie, "Argo." Right? Oscar buzz, doing great at the box office, a consensus idea of what a quality Hollywood film is. It pretty much flunks the Bechdel test.

How movies teach manhood...

 And I didn't -- and I'd never used it in school, because I was too busy writing poems, and flunking out, and I don't know what, sitting in cafes. But I picked it up and I started reading it and I thought, this book is amazing. I said, people should know about this book.

Maira Kalman: The...

 the tube containing the blue odor that was paired with shock well if you do this test on dopamine receptor mutant flies they don't learn their learning score is zero they flunk out of Caltech now so that means that these flies have two abnormalities or phenotypes as we

Your brain is more than...

 doing great at the box office a consensus idea of what a quality Hollywood film is pretty much flunks the Bechtel test and I don't think it should because there a lot of the movie and oh no if you've seen it but a lot of the movie takes place in this embassy where

 it avoids the tube containing the blue odor that was paired with shock. Well, if you do this test on dopamine receptor mutant flies, they don't learn. Their learning score is zero. They flunk out of CalTech.

David Anderson: Your...

 to be happy and successful in life. Happy and successful people went to state school, went to a small college no one has heard of, went to community college, went to a college over here and flunked out.

How to Raise Successful...

 departure day the two flunking guys they come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and

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 These were children who the whole world had given up on, who were flunking out of public school, and that's what they're capable of doing