Meanings of failing student in English

I felt like a failing student who'd been summoned to the teachers' room.

Perhaps she assumes they are family members come to plead the case of some failing student.

She was a failing student herself (she failed third grade twice) until her godmother put her in a private school.

TUCSON, Arizona, Oct. 29, 2002 - A failing student shoots and kills three professors and then himself at the University of Arizona School of Nursing.