<p>I am serious about wanting to discuss these educational issues. Let’s see if we can put aside political issues for a second and talk about education in philosophical terms. </p>
<p>1) Which do you see as more important - k-12 education or college education - and why?</p>
<p>2) Assuming you were in charge of doling out the federal education budget, would you put greater emphasis on k-12 spending or college program funding - and why? In a perfect world (which granted we may never have) how would you approach educational spending?</p>
<p>3) How do you feel about school vouchers? Public school choice? Do you have any other ideas for how we could improve k-12 education at the federal level? At the state level? At the local level?</p>
<p>4) What role do you think the federal government should play in improving access and affordability to college education? What, if anything, should colleges and students be willing to give up in return?</p>
<p>Let’s try to keep partisan politics out of this for right now - reply as if your guy won the election - let’s just brainstorm and see what we can come up with. Points off for the first person who uses any of these words in this philosophical discussion about American education: liberal, elitist, republican, bush, kerry, enlistment, iraq, halliburton, christian, right wing, left wing, democratic, blue state, red state.</p>