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Teacher Suspended for Anti-Obama Facebook Post About Paying for Students’ Food Stamps

Nov. 12, 2012 3:32pm Erica Ritz

A South Carolina teacher is the most recent of many to find herself in hot water over political comments on her personal Facebook account.

Following President Obama’s re-election last week, Sharon Aceta, an eigth grade math teacher at Rawlinson Road Middle School, wrote:

“Congrats Obama. As one of my students sang down the hallway, ‘We get to keep our fooood stamps’…which I pay for because they can’t budget their money…and really, neither can you.”

Here is a screen shot of the post, according to the site Jezebel:

South Carolina Teacher Sharon Aceta Suspended for Anti Obama Facebook Post

(Photo: Facebook via Jezebel)

Aceta has apologized and deleted the post, and though she was briefly suspended, is expected to return to work this week.

WSCOC-TV adds:

Teachers in the Rock Hill school district are often reminded about being careful when the use social media such as Facebook and Twitter. It is discussed during teacher orientation, staff meetings, and throughout the school year.

“Sometimes you just can’t speak out publicly about what you’d personally like to say, about anything,” [school spokeswoman Elaine Baker] said. “Teachers are held to higher standards because of what they do.”

Last week, TheBlaze reported on another Obama-related Facebook post, though it was far worse than Aceta’s.

“And another four years of the n*****….maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!” Denise Helms wrote, originally saying she had no idea what she did wrong. Unlike Aceta, though, Helms was quickly fired.

The Huffington Post reminds that yet another teacher in Columbus, Ohio wrote on Facebook last week: “Congrats to those dependent on government, homosexuals, potheads, JAY-Z fans, non Christians, non taxpayers, illegals, communists, Muslims, planned murder clinics, enemies of America, Satan You WON!” School officials are investigating the case.

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My Two Cents
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:05pm
I predict that when little Johnny is old and feeble he will still be collecting food stamps while his savior Obama will have lived out his golden years at a posh country club.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:37pm
  So will they go after the teachers that post something positive about Obama? Or how about the ones posting negatives on Romney…ddin’t think so.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:22pm
  Obozo’s America is a Chicken nugget and stale green beans on every plate for bfast, lunch, and dinner in every non edumacation indoctrination center and a Dear leader Ears shining face on every wall of the non edumacation indoctrination center.
  
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- Quandary
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:13pm
  Interesting … thats a very optimistic outlook. You think we will have a functioning economy where we can afford to have food stamps.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:20pm
  Little Johnnie would be ticked if he found out Obama is a half breed, or as the kids at school call them, A Zebra, He would also be ticked if he found out that the Zebra was worth a million bucks when he came into offfice and was now worth 16 million Bucks.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:10pm
  The bigger story are the lies that the Obamunist’s passed on to to the kids at the non edumacating indoctrination centers. Obozo’s and his minions were disseminating widely the lies that Romney was going to take away Trojans, Tampons, Maxi Pads, Food Stamps, Welfare Snaps, Electric bill subsidy, abortion, putting kids back in chains. Take away Twinkies and Pizza and Hot Dogs. Take away their toys etc. These Non-edumacating indoctrinatioin centers will take a turkey sandwich out of your kids brown bag lunch and put a nugget in that kid in that kids hands. Oh well, it’s Obozo’s Amerika.
  
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- Reclaiming Our Nation
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:17pm
  Warning from beyond the grave:
  http://reclaimingournation.blogspot.com/2012/11/socialism-is-evil-empire.html
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:56pm
  Jon may not see college lest it interfere with mine working. Overlords need sweet&blood not brains. We grew the perfect crop too. They can work for cheetos and video games. 5 minute break every 12 hours. 2 hour rest every 24. The cute girls get jobs too…but “free” gov cheese&generic healthcare til next yeeeeeeeeeeear.
  
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- NeilChapin
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 6:15am
  Where are the reprimands for the teachers posting pro-Obama messages on their Facebook pages. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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gwiii
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:05pm
November 7th 2012 was a sad day. The next 4 years are going to be very difficult indeed. Our government has become an enemy of the working class. We did what we had to do when we voted for Romney, and we fell short. Romney may not have been the ideal candidate, but he was 100 times better than what we have now. In the USSA, disrespecting the corrupt administration does not go unpunished.

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EqualJustice
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:04pm
We just need to give Obama ore tax revenue then he can do more of THIS with it! The Obama administration used our TAX DOLLARS over the last TWO YEARS to advertise on MEXICO TV and radio during soap operas encouraging Mexicans to apply for U.S. food stamps and other benefits!! Obama is known as the FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. Come and get some! http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/the-food-stamp-president-of-mexico.php

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Exidor
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:04pm
I’m all for the truth and agree with her. But….most institutions have a social media policy in place these days. Where I work does. People need to find out from their HR dept.

I understand the uproar, but jobs are scarce and will be for awhile.

JMO…..

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- siylencedogood
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 12:35pm
  The First Amendment is not left ineffective at the door of a public school, a corporation, a hospital, etc. This unconstitutional act cannot be tolerated. Stand with this teacher. Call your Congressman.
  
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robbiehawk
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:55pm
I wish there was another social venue for people to use besides facebook to voice their opinions – using their first amendment rights – free speech! You cannot put anything negative about Obama on facebook even if you are set to private. Big brother is watching……

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:03pm
  Where did you get the notion that you cannot put bad things about Obama on Facebook? My page is a giant seething flame of the man and his policies and nobody has said boo to me about it, from Facebook.
  
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- burnteye86
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:19pm
  Same here Ghost…
  
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- Glossy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:37pm
  @ Robbie: you are right.
  @ghost: I just tried to post this to FB today and was blocked because content was “previously reported as abusive or spammy.”
  
  “Obama government=epic fail.
  Easy coast now TWO weeks without power, gas rationing, looters rampant, big daddy government MIA…but claiming recovery went “flawlessly.” What a joke. The only help people are getting is from charities. Highest tax burden in the country and what does it get you? Way to go America, you reap what you you sew.”
  
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- robbiehawk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:32pm
  Sorry ghost – should have said “you shouldn’t” put anything negative about Obama on facebook.
  
  @ Glossy – I have heard this type of thing before, hence my post.
  
  Whether you are private or not on facebook I believe that facebook workers or whatever computers have access to whatever you write.
  
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- robbiehawk
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:38pm
  p.s. this is just my opinion
  
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- cptenn94
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 6:58pm
  facebook does have direct access to your posts….they can pull them up any time….also there was some story that proved that facebook gets rid of posts like that….i think it was some guy who posted some picture…..and it was popular….the oonly reason they dont delete all anti obama posts is because they would have to hire a ton of people to do so…if they could they would i think….
  
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- LaughinWillow
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:09pm
  This wasn’t even something negative about Obama – this was a teacher showing a complete lack of judgement regarding what was appropriate to say about her students. This is an EIGHTH GRADE teacher. Free speech doesn’t just mean you get to say whatever you like – it ALSO means that you accept responsibility for what you’ve said. And this is horrendous. This teacher is insulting her students and showing complete disregard for the conditions they live in. You wouldn’t like it if you didn’t agree with her about Obama. And it’s just sad that you people would defend an educator behaving like this.
  
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- Disgusted_in_CT
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 6:51am
  Glossy
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:37pm
  @ Robbie: you are right.
  @ghost: I just tried to post this to FB today and was blocked because content was “previously reported as abusive or spammy.”
  
  “Obama government=epic fail.
  Easy coast now TWO weeks without power, gas rationing, looters rampant, big daddy government MIA…but claiming recovery went “flawlessly.” What a joke. The only help people are getting is from charities. Highest tax burden in the country and what does it get you? Way to go America, you reap what you you sew.”
  
  I just posted that same exact message on my facebook and it went thru with no problem.
  Someone must be watching your account and flagging.
  You did make up a fake FB account right?
  You know a throw away one in case something like this happens.
  Do it now and become the good little boy in the spotlight and in the background wreck havoc!
  
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- siylencedogood
  Posted on November 13, 2012 at 12:55pm
  LAUGHINWILLOW
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 11:09pm wrote:
  “Free speech doesn’t just mean you get to say whatever you like”
  
  Actually it means exactly that. If you can’t say anything you like – “speaking your mind to express you opinion and values in whatever venue you choose” then there is no free speech. Yelling Fire when there is a fire is not an exercise of the freedom of speech, it is an alarm, a siren, which is the DUTY of every citizen, to warn fellow citizens of “immediate/imminent” danger to life and limb. Doing so with ill intent, and without such imminent danger may physically create a danger of it’s own, and as such is not contextually relevant to the First Amendment protection of free speech. The protection for free speech was not a literal protection of every word or sound uttered from the mouth, but the explication of ideas, the sharing of information, the communication of unpopular/offensive ideas and values. Yelling fire is the literal equivalent of an alarm/siren, and we all know that pulling a fire alarm without a fire will land you with a fine or in jail.
  
  As for the rest of your post, she posted this on her own Facebook page. That others took offense because of the truth she spoke is EXACTLY what the First Amendment protects. Unpopular and Offensive speech is the ONLY speech that the first amendment protects because if the speech is not unpopular or offensive it needs no protection!
  
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RSCAC
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:53pm
I don’t recognize my Country, sound familiar?

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TheWatchmanSeeth
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:50pm
Sad, sad, sad, its so sad when no-one cares that telling the truth can get you into trouble,,,,,

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DAJ
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:50pm
Dont apoligize for the truth.

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nzkiwi
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:49pm
It seems that she forgot that the teacher unions will smack anybody down who does not profess the greatest admiration for Mr Obama.

Silly her.

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Inlightofthings
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:49pm
“Teachers are held to a higher standard”… Hmmm, certainly implies that if your free speech is restricted, you will inherently have a higher standard. Interesting concept.

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- Frederick_Douglass_Republican
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 7:12pm
  The higher standard of Progressives means control of speech. I don’t see why she said she was sorry. It was an honest statement with no malice. Just relating her experience.
  
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Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:48pm
Since when do you have to give up your first amendments rights when you become a teacher? I guess in Obama’s Marxist world (and now our world), you do. How can so many administrator’s be such cowards, and not stand up for what they know is right?

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Triple7
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:47pm
We are all equal. We all have free speech. Just some are more equal and have more free speech than others.
Nothing to see here. The bigoted teacher is being re-educated to adhere to what her level of free speech pertains.

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momrules
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:46pm
We are being muzzled. No more truth, no opinions unless it fits the liberal agenda.

People will start gathering in groups to speak quietly among themselves and the anger will grow and grow and grow.

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- Misty Williams
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:59pm
  Express Free speech here:
  https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions
  
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ThankYouFounders
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:45pm
If only she’d taught her students to sing an ode to Dear Leader she’d probably be profiled for Vogue Magazine and be a guest political commentator on MSNBC.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:53pm
  And Time magazine’s Person of the Year.
  
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VanceUppercut
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:45pm
I’m sure her students will forgive and forget, and won’t make the rest of her school year a living hell. Heh, heh, heh,

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- Clownzilla
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:53pm
  Yes, because the government could care less about their ability to learn. They just want to raise another generation of mindless zombies that get revenge on those that think differently.
  
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subsailor
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:43pm
I sigh as I think back to when we were free in America, and we had the right to speak our opinions without repercussion. As long as she did not voice this opinion in class, I say screw the district! We had a teacher in Columbia SC say to her students she was ashamed that Obama won, and her students should be ashamed also. She Should be fired. As well as teachers who say that students parents were stupid for voting for Romney. You need to keep personal political opinions out of the classroom. What this lady did was on her time not the schools.

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Cavallo
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:42pm
Did you thank a vet for your.. lol “Freedoms”? Exactly which freedoms again are they being maimed and killed for? You live in a fascist state. Get used to it. How much do you want to bet that Obama can get elected as president for life, al la Hugo Chavez or Castro? Don’t use facebook, don’t use twitter, what you post politically can and will be used against you by government agencies based upon subjective political tastes of the administrators.

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- momrules
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:48pm
  I think he was already elected President for life. He just hasn’t made the announcement yet.
  
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- Inlightofthings
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 9:54pm
  Y’know, in the spirit of good ole’ what’s her name, I had a thought on our military; Bring ‘em all home, there ain’t nothing worth dying for here. It was brief and I got over it, but never felt that way – ever.
  
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RightUnite
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:41pm
Some people need to grow some thicker skin…. Apparently the truth hurts, huh??

“Remember Benghazi”

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scrapadapolis
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:41pm
But on the other hand if teachers are allowed to create muslim teaching week,Obama songs praising the dictator,Black teachers mouthing off about white bush keeping her down.So The sword only points in?Im so glad Im obtaining a small arsonal and dry foods for the comming of the All American constitutation army..

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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:21pm
  We need another Continental army.
  
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cackyy
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:41pm
So it’s okay for the students to have an opinion on the subject and post it on FB, but not okay for the teacher to post it on FB? I call ******** on this. So much for freedom of speech. She wasn’t in a teaching enviorment, it was FACEBOOK. Where’s the ACLU to backher up? huh?

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:40pm
That was a true statement, but applied in an inappropriate venue. Facebook is public, unless you set it to fully private. Even then, if you befriend even ONE person from work or who associates with you about work (such as a student), or you post on a persons timeline who is viewable by the public, you’re essentially broadcasting to the entire planet.

I’m sorry, but Facebook is a dangerous place to express any opinions outside of what you think of the new recipe you tried for fish last evening.

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elosogrande
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:39pm
There was a teacher in Glenview, Il who, during the Bush Presidency, started her class each day by asking – “Okay, how many of you think Gearge Bush is an idiot today?” My, how times change.

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sexyvixen21
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:38pm
Can we say anything in this fn country anymore? I say give her a raise….my family is sick of free-loaders too. I say “if you don’t work….you can’t vote” let’s see how many dems get voted in than.

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biohazard23
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:38pm
Apologize? APOLOGIZE?? For what, telling the truth????

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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:47pm
  Exactly, Bio. She’s telling the truth.
  
  And that is unforgivable.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 5:19pm
  True that.
  
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HKS
Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:36pm
There is indeed a high price to be paid for telling the truth in this country, “this country can’t handle the truth” they live in fairyland and it will end soon.

“Remember Benghazi”

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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:47pm
  @HKS
  
  Remember Iran-Contra.
  
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- Clownzilla
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 3:55pm
  @Vance
  
  Two wrongs don’t make a right. If you think spilled blood by the hands of the Obama administration is just “payback” for Iran-Contra then you are a sick person.
  
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- liberaldoublestandard
  Posted on November 12, 2012 at 4:40pm
  The recent election proved that the large city dwelling majority will from this point forward, ALWAYS impose their big government control, gay agenda, and anti-religion measures on the vast territories of the remainder of the US. The point is since you know that no amount of economic failure, job loss, or Constitutional right infringement will divert this city dwelling majority crowd from following the cult-like democrat liberal progressive vote then what option is left. These huge welfare baby factory cities will only increase in size and their education level will only decrease
  
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