Rhetoric for Speech

Education is something everyone would agree is extremely important. Everyone wants to see schools succeed and appealing to people's emotions shouldn't be a very hard thing. Pathos might have played a bigger part in my speech if my argument was in favor of the plan I have to oppose, but now it's going to be important to appeal with logos to state factual evidence showing why the plan could not work. It will also be important to use ethos to show common ground, provide reasons for opposing that everyone could relate to and maybe provide some background information and appear fair. In my speech, in an ideal world the plan itself could not really be criticized, because like I said, everyone agrees education is important, but realistically things like financial support come into question so maybe I could bring in the question, what do people think is MORE important?

With this audience I think it's important to maybe stress pathos/logos because most people already know each other and know where they're coming from. However, it might be nice to prove that your opinion is a good one by appearing well prepared and like you put in a lot of effort and really researched the topic because who's going to listen to you if you sound like you're talking out of your ass? I know this isn't very specific but basically I think all of these could be used in my speech..