flunks

It is Mr. Goodale's review that "flunks," to borrow your language.

'The Flawed Report on Dan Rather': An Exchange Boccardi, Lou 2005

If one were in a blue funk of dejection because of failure in a class, he would lend the sympathy that came from his own rich experience in failures, -- not only past but present, for some things that come easy at sixteen come hard at sixty-five, and this man who would accept no favors had to fight his way through "flunks" and "goose-eggs" like the younger members of the class.

Craftsmanship in Teaching William Chandler Bagley 1910

In New York City, the main point of contention was what happens after a teacher flunks an evaluation.

Teacher Evaluation Deal Reached Jacob Gershman 2012

He knows that all too often it's their school system that flunks.

Michele Somerville: The New NYC Schools Chancellor Learned All He Needs to Know (to Fix the Schools) in Kindergarten Michele Somerville 2011

If Busan flunks it and fails to grapple with this broader agenda it will still be playing out the endgame of a previous era, rather than defining the new one.

Busan conference offers chance to tackle aid effectiveness | Jonathan Glennie 2011

We don't want to hear how their oldest son, Fitzwilliam Junior, flunks out of Cambridge University and becomes an alcoholic; of how their second son Montmorency becomes a vicar and is found in flagrante delicto with a choirboy, or of how their daughter Esmeralda runs away and becomes a showgirl in Deadwood, S.D.

Alan Elsner: The Mr. Darcy Industry Alan Elsner 2011

He knows that all too often it's their school system that flunks.

Michele Somerville: The New NYC Schools Chancellor Learned All He Needs to Know (to Fix the Schools) in Kindergarten Michele Somerville 2011

He knows that all too often it's their school system that flunks.

Michele Somerville: The New NYC Schools Chancellor Learned All He Needs to Know (to Fix the Schools) in Kindergarten Michele Somerville 2011

He knows that all too often it's their school system that flunks.

Michele Somerville: The New NYC Schools Chancellor Learned All He Needs to Know (to Fix the Schools) in Kindergarten Michele Somerville 2011

We don't want to hear how their oldest son, Fitzwilliam Junior, flunks out of Cambridge University and becomes an alcoholic; of how their second son Montmorency becomes a vicar and is found in flagrante delicto with a choirboy, or of how their daughter Esmeralda runs away and becomes a showgirl in Deadwood, S.D.

Alan Elsner: The Mr. Darcy Industry Alan Elsner 2011