Is it true that you should never start a sentence with because?

I remember my first-grade teacher strongly emphasizing this and jamming it into our brains but I still find that some sentences that follow up with the one that came before only sound good or come to mind with Because at the beginning.

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MartinII · 70-79, M

No. It depends what comes next. “Because I posted something on SW” is not a sentence. “Because I posted something on SW, people liked me” is a perfectly good sentence. I’m afraid your first-grade teacher didn’t understand syntax.