I was in the later years of elementary school when the American school system really started to become grossly underfunded.

I repeatedly heard my teacher grumbling about copy paper and lack of supplies. A coupe of times, my teacher complained to ME! Expressing how they were stressed out about not being able to get all the stuff they needed to teach and didn’t mean to snap at me like that. O_O

I really felt bad for them, they couldn’t do anything to stop it.