User talk:Ronnycampoverd

Stop light party

In your most recent revision to Stop light party, you changed the description of September from the "the beginning of the school year" to "the beginning of the school semester", a change that I had previously reverted.

So let me explain to you my general notion of the traditional "school year", at least in the U.S.:

The traditional academic year consists of two semesters: the Fall semester and the Spring semester. The first semester is the Fall semester, so the beginning of the Fall semester is also the beginning of the school year.

The article states that these stop light parties are common in September. This is about the beginning of the Fall semester. However, it's not around the beginning of the Spring semester. Now the beginning of a school year generally has quite a few more changes for students than the mere beginning of a semester. At the beginning of a school year, there's a new entering class, returning students have typically been away for at least a couple of months, and housing arrangements will more likely have changed than would have changed between the Fall and Spring semesters of the same school year. All of this change makes a"stop light party" be something that's going to generate greater interest at the beginning of the school year than it would be at the beginning of just an arbitrary semester.

For these reasons, I think it's a mistake to describe September as the "beginning of the [sic] school semester" rather than at the "beginning of the school year". If you feel there is an error in my reasoning, can you please explain what it is? Thanks. Fabrickator (talk) 02:48, 25 May 2015 (UTC)