21.   Gonzalez argued that one advocacy group, the National Hispanic Agenda, had given Bonilla a failing grade for his votes on major issues affecting Hispanics.

22.   He became ineligible once first-semester grades were posted, and his only recourse is to petition the university to change a failing grade to a passing one.

23.   High school students caught cheating are usually given a stern lecture or, at worst, a failing grade.

24.   If Edison Schools were a student, it would get a failing grade.

25.   In fact, if graduation rates measure how well it fulfills its mission, the NCAA gets a failing grade in high-revenue sports.

26.   In contrast to the two earlier hotel surveys, none of the companies received a failing grade this year.

27.   In four cases, he said, students with failing grades, including two athletes, were given blank diplomas.

28.   It rightly gave the metropolitan area a failing grade for what amounts to societal abuse and neglect of a generation of Americans.

29.   LaShonda was an A and B student before the harassment began and then plunged into despair, receiving failing grades and writing a suicide note her father found.

30.   Mexico has never received a failing grade, which often is given only to countries that the United States considers an enemy or a pariah.