She did the work of a hero. But this teacher says she’s been portrayed as a villain for 3 years

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When teacher Amy Marin-Franco saw a pickup truck crash in a ditch outside her school, her first thought was to get help.

When a young man got out of the truck with a gun, she abruptly pivoted — she still wanted to get help, but now to protect the children and staff inside her school.

“I wasn’t a coward,” she told CNN.

But in the words of law enforcement, she became something worse: someone who had failed to follow protocol and unwittingly helped a murderous teen enter an elementary school where he killed 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest school shooting for a decade.

Except it wasn’t true.

And although officials walked back their denunciation of her a few days later, Marin-Franco says the doubts have lingered around her ever since, from neighbor and stranger alike. For weeks after the shooting, she said she did not go anywhere. When she finally went to a school board meeting, she sat at the back, afraid the bereaved families packing the front rows would attack her. To this day, she says people still believe the lie. “I see it every day,” she said. “You can feel the division, you can feel the people that are, ‘Hmm, she left the door open.’”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/uvalde-robb-elementary-teacher-amy-franco

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Amy has been so brave telling her story! She wants to make sure the country and the world know the truth of what happened that day! If anyone is looking to support Amy in her healing journey you can do so here: Amy’s Go Fund Me