I’ve also seen US teachers spending hundreds of dollars out of their own pockets to stock classrooms.
I spent a lot of time in European schools and I’ve never heard of teachers having to stock their own classrooms or fundraise for things like playgrounds, etc.
Things like the fact that the way the state of Ohio decides the amount of funds allocated to the school districts being found unconstitutional in the 90s but them still using the exact same system to date is probably a large portion of it.