The Chocolate War Pre-Reading

                    School pranks can happen often, more so in high school than middle school.  Sometimes the pranks can be harmless but other times someone can end up getting hurt or maybe someones property might get damaged.  To me, if a school prank is funny and no one gets hurt or nothing gets damaged than school pranks are good and funny.  If someone pulls a harmless school prank and than gets in trouble for it, I will be opposed to that because they didn't do anything wrong and shouldn't get punished.  During class someone might do something funny and then the whole class might laugh but the student that made them laugh will get in trouble for no reason, no one got hurt (inside and out), no ones property was damaged, and no one was offended by it.  But if someone does get hurt, offended, or something's broke, then I support the decision to punish them.
                    People might get confused with what pranks are harmless and what pranks aren't and even though they don't know, they'll still do the prank even though they don't know if someone's going to get hurt or not.  Some harmful pranks that people might think are okay but aren't might include: tripping someone, throwing stuff, and writing on stuff.  All of those pranks could either get someone hurt or offended and get you in trouble.  Sometimes pranks just aren't worth it.  Only do a prank if you know it won't get you in major trouble or someone offended/hurt or something broke.
                    School pranks can be fun and make other people laugh but that's the only time it's good to do a prank.  All of the other times is wrong and you shouldn't do them.  And if you get in trouble for pulling a school prank even though you didn't brake any rules, then say that you did nothing wrong, or that you won't do it again.  So next time you thing about pulling a school prank just take into consideration about how other people might feel.