Why do you hurt yourself? Answer

Why do you hurt yourself?
Dear Students,

I want to tell you something that I've been noticing this month. Many of you like to hurt yourself.

For some reason, you guys like to do things that end up hurting yourselves. Some of you still refuse to complete all of your homework. In the end, if you don't do homework, who do you hurt? Do you hurt the teachers or your parents? Maybe a little bit. But if you think about it, not doing your work won't hurt me because I'll still get my paycheck. You, however, will suffer in the end because you won't be prepared for college.

If you do drugs or inhale stuff, who do you hurt? Not the teachers or your parents because we're not the ones damaging our brains. A lot of you still don't understand how hard it is to succeed in college. You will need all of the brain cells that you have right now. Each brain cell you kill means you're one brain cell dumber than other people. So, tell me, who do you hurt in the end when you do drugs?

If you act out in class, and you don't learn the stuff, who do you hurt in the end?
If you fight, and you get suspended from school, who do you hurt in the end?
If you copy homework or cheat on tests, and you don't learn the stuff, who do you hurt in the end?
If you need help with homework, and you don't come to office hours, who do you hurt in the end?
If you have a problem in your life, and you don't get help from us, who ends up getting hurt in the end?

When I said "Think before you act" in my last letter, this is what I meant. Before you actually do something stupid, think about what will happen and who you're going to hurt. I'll bet you, in the end, you will hurt yourself the most. There's enough pain in this world; why do you think adults are always looking for happiness? So, if you can't stop others from hurting you, then you can at least stop yourself from hurting yourself.

If you don't understand what I mean, come talk to me. Make sure you save this email, because I will ask you to copy it in the future, to remind you that you're hurting yourself again.

With love and respect,

Mr. Hsu


Questions:
a. Describe a situation where you had “hurt” yourself in the way that I described in my letter.

b. Discuss what you can do to prevent other students from hurting themselves.

c. Talk about whether my letter made sense or not. Do you agree or disagree with what I said? Why?




Answers:
a. I hurt myself a lot because I can never remember things. Sometimes I don't remember that I have to bring a certain book or if I turned in a certain homework and that hurts my grade. Another thing is that I trust people too much. Once I let someone I didn't even know borrow my math book (this was in 6th grade) for a day because they had taken me by surprise early in the morning and I wasn't thinking. They ended up keeping it for about the entire semester and I couldn't remember who it was I lent it to, and eventually we had to pay for the book. I can't remember if she ever gave it back or not.

b. We could stop them from copying homework, or at least your homework. You could tell them what the homework is if they ask though because its the helpful thing to do especially if the person is very forgetful.

c.Yeah it made sense but the title made it seem like it was about physical abuse like cutting yourself or something. And I sort of agree with your letter. It's not okay for someone to cheat or copy all the time or anything. It's just not right and not fair for the other students. But if it doesn't affect the whole class (like a grade curve or something) some people will think its ok to cheat because it just pertains to them and no one will get mad. I don't think grade curves or things that hurt only a certain percent in the class are a good idea though it's like saying those people are smart and the ones on the other end are stupid.

Grades and questions

a. What do you think about your grades? Do you like or dislike what you see? Why?
b. How can you improve your grades further?
I've very happy with all my grades except for biology. I have 4 A's (Geometrey, English, Spanish[A-] and Curriculum skills) 2 B's (In Tech and Ethnic Studies[B+]) And one 58 F in Biology. I am not happy with the F but otherwise I like whatever else I have, except I need to give a little push in Ethnics for an A and watch my Spanish so it doesn't go down.

c. How do your grades at Animo compare to your grades in your last school?
I think I did better at Animo. I have almost 5 A's and one F. I still had an F last year though but that was on account of the teacher (who had the be replaced second semester and the replacement failed everyone on the first day and was very negative and racist for the first week.)
d. Was there anything unfair about how you earned those grades?Which grades? These grades? Last year's grades? No, but I remember a lot of people at my middle school copied homework from other people. I don'tlike letting people copy my homework, so I don't.e. If you received comments, what do you think about them?
They're probably true on some basis otherwise they wouldn't have been commented that way.

My weekend..

So I'm supposed to write about my weekend? Well....
I was sick all weekend. So I didn't go anywhere, or do anything. Not even on Halloween. That sucked. I had to miss school on Friday too I was that sick. Bad bad throat. I always get sick when the seasons change. I didn't even buy a costume because I sort of was gonna use my graduation dress which was a long chinese mandarin color green one, it was really pretty. I got to talk to my friend in Southgate online on the computer and I got to take a 'class' on the Gens. Molly was the teacher of it, and it was mainly to explain it to her friend Dusk. That was pretty cool, and I actually got some stuff right, haha. I started my super-secret art project too, muahaha, but I've only got one picture I'm coloring because I can't seem to get the lineart of the others to look right. Oh yeah and I got permission frm Tard to draw MR RIBBON/Yhetla/Altehy too. He's scary but he's cool. Also drew another picture of NiGHTS/Plum-bum with his hat haha XD. I also had the strangest dream: The toilet was an insant messaging program and the words were like 'projected' onto the porchlein tank (the part with the flushy thing) and 'attachments' or sent stuff just like popped out of thin air. That was strange. Well my friend sent me like this little egg-shaped bath toy or whatever and it came with a note that said 'Eggmanism mixed with Confucious' (Eggman from Sonic games) and it was all very strange. Anyway, so I didn't really get to do anything this weekend, just went on the comp and drew and be sick.