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A photograph showing a derogatory remark aimed at newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and displayed on a sign outside of South Charlotte Middle School sign went viral on social media in October 2018. While school officials set about investigating the incident, a number of suspicious Twitter accounts started spreading the photograph along with the claim that the words Fuck Kavanaugh were put on the sign by socialist teachers, and that the message reflected the type of lesson Democrats (were) teaching our children: Here are some of the messages that were attached to this image as it circulated online: This image is a genuine photograph of a sign standing outside of South Charlotte Middle School and displaying the words Fuck Kavanaugh. However, the message on the sign was the product of vandalism; it was not purposefully displayed by school administrators, socialist teachers, or general Democrats in an attempt to indoctrinate children. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) spokesman Tracy Russ said that she initially believed the image was fake news — doctored images of signs, after all, can be found in abundance on social media — and the CMS Twitter account originally labeled the image as such. But after a brief investigation the school discovered that the sign had truly had been altered to display a curse word: School Principal Lisa Bailes also released a statement on Facebook confirming the existence of the defacement and an investigation into it:
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