Kids That Can't Read: Why, Why, Why?

Certainly, a whole barrage of reasons can be given for so many students reading below proficient level.  I offer three possible reasons.

1. Often, non-readers come from disfunctional families.  These children do not know the who, what and where of their existence.  Learning to read is a distant something or other.
2. The prospect of injury to self over powers the potential excitment and esteem building power of discovery through reading.
3. Most assuredly, self concept and self esteem suffer. What emerges is a hardened mind and soul awash with faulty knowledge, dispair and a fading future.

So there you have it...what a god awful mess.