 should michigan pass a law that would deny promotion from 3rd grade to 4th grade based on meap reading test scores  yes no undecided consequences for not not passing 3rd grade reading meap or not  no we shouldn t hold back 3rd graders who don t pass the 3rd grade reading meap what pray tell are grades and exams for if you think not just keep moving them forward until very quickly they are in deep water and can t swim and will never swim reading is fundamental there should also be consequences for teachers whose students can t read and schools whose teachers can t teach students to read flunk them fire them close them down 3rd grade students  if we can get them to read better it will cost us less in the long run the schools will say we must give them more money so we can do a better job of teaching what did they do with the money we already gave them we could just pass them to the next grade and so on until they graduate the 12 grade we would just have a larger bunch of dummies my grandson goat a f in algebra and his father made him take the class over again my grandson said he would still get credit for the algebra class with and f grade al  