Stephanie Medley-Rath explores an important issue when it comes to schools and fundraisers. She says school fundraisers can be expensive for most people, depending on the community in which you live. Every year her children go to school to organize a fundraiser and she has to choose whether to go ahead and sell the products or simply donate money to the school. The city she resides in is considered a lower income status community and only a few are considered middle class. When fundraising, a school can choose a percentage of return on sales. Stephanie calculates that if the school chooses to opt for 25% of sales and, for example, a person buys five boxes of chocolates for five dollars, the total being $25.00, the school would earn $6.25. If the school chose a 30% return and using the same scenario but the price of the chocolates cost $7.00 per box, for a total of $35.00, the school would earn $10.50. Examine the amount earned by the majority of the community and calculate that most of them cannot afford or would not want to spend $7.00 on a box of chocolates. He explains how he thought this was his private problem, but that it is now increasingly becoming a public problem for his community as he is unable to sell that price of chocolate to anyone. Dig deeper. Question 1: Describe the sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is the ability to see society differently than one's own personal thoughts and experiences. Being able to look at this issue in a different way than when the “poorer” part of the community has a job or receives government aid versus those who surely can only afford a $7.00 box of chocolates. There might be a reason why this community has no income, for example... middle of the paper... brings out the side that most people don't think about. There are families in our communities who simply cannot afford the products made available by school fundraisers. I'm sure they would love to help and maybe they could, but it wouldn't be enough to make a difference in funding. I think schools need to think of other ways to raise money at a reasonable price. I would find it unfair if my child brought home a catalog and the prices didn't fit my budget. I wouldn't mind, but it would make me feel bad that I couldn't support school. There may be families who don't mind the price even if it's financially unrealistic and still support the school, which is great. I agree that this shows some inequality depending on the prices that schools provide for their products that they sell.