The sign "STOP HURTIN"G YOURSELF" means to focus more in class and do work instead of messing around because after all by not doing good in school the consequences are you might not be able to go to college and not have a career. Then you'll look back and realize that all you did throughout schoolyears by not doing work and doing what you were supposed to you hurt yourself. In middle school there were alot of people who didnt relly care for their grades or school. There was a certain person I really loved, one of my friends. Instead of doing homework or focusing in class she would go out with other people and not do schoolwork. Towards the end of the year we had many school events for the cuulminating class. Her name was never on the lists and she wondered why. The way this hurt her was she didnt het to have fun with the rest of the culminating class, she didnt get to go to special fieldtrips, dances, and she didn;t grt to walk stage with most of her friends. That didn;t only hurt her but it also hurt me that I was her bestfriend and wasn't able to spend the funnest days of middle school with my bestfriend!!!!