Perhaps.
Pic's from my classroom.
Gifts my students and I collected for a platoon in Iraq.
Bulletin board in my classroom.
Gifts the kids collected to give to the troops guarding the terrorists at Gitmo. *
(We found out that the terrorist were getting more valentins from the US then they were)
Since our boys in in high school now, we don't seem to get all the requests for classroom supplies, except perhaps the occasional box of tissues. I haven't heard whether the elementary schools in our district have gone off the deep end asking for cleaning supplies and toilet paper. I sure hope not. We're in the process of building an overly expensive and grand new high school. Taxes went through the roof, and plenty of people are mad at the school board. I think if the same citizens had to supply toilet paper and hand sanitizers, it would cause quite a stir.
Back when we were kids, our parents had to supply a lot of our books as well as papers, pencils, etc. I remember going with my mother to the place that sold all the paperback workbooks for first grade and bringing home brand new educational materials. A few years later, there was some ruling that all this stuff had to be supplied by the school district, right down to pencils and paper. Apparently it discriminated against the poor. Now we're back to supplying lots of stuff but it's communal supplies rather than books for individual use. Funny how things work out.