Do you think you can blame the public school system as to why more and more kids don't like to read every year?

Look very very very few kids relates to old literature and in many ways you can call it a dead language even though you can understand it. You got people complaining that kids of this generation hates reading. Well you are always going to have a kid that does not like reading but I am sure more kids will like to read on their free time if they were introduced to books written in recent times. No kid would want to read "The Catcher in the Rye" or To Kill a Mockingbird" over the "Harry Potter series" & "The Chronicles of Narnia." (I pick these books because people know them) In high school instead of reading Shakespeare they should read something from Dead Koontz or Stephen King. I am sure their are better choices out there than those but the point of my question is getting the attention of young minds and the books schools choose tend to not do that. Honestly I just don't think teaching Shakespeare is going to make you smarter or anything like that. I just believe reading new material will get kids reading more because they will relate to it easier.