Oh, of course. The biggest part of the problem is that there is a disconnect between residents paying exorbitant amounts of money per child on education and teachers having to try and cover the cost of their own classroom supplies. It makes taxpayers really, really angry when teachers ask for more money, because I don't think many people understand how little money the teachers are actually seeing (though I would also contend that, like other public sector workers, there is a benefits disconnect for teachers that needs to be corrected).