Give it up for this hero.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Victoria Soto, first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School and died December 14 2012 in the school shooting there that murdered 20 children and six adults.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/16/newtown-shootings-gunman-soto-details/1772791/
Gosh imagining the silence the kids had to keep after hearing that
So brave, yet so sad she had to do this.
Teachers 👏 Shouldn’t 👏 Have 👏 To 👏 Die 👏 At 👏 Work 👏
The US, where we ignore teachers and children being gunned down in schools every day, but one CEO (whose policies killed thousands) gets killed and it’s all the media can talk about.
My daughter is in the fourth grade and she has a designated hiding place. Wtf are we doing??
Jesus Fucking Christ, United States.
Get your shit together.
Edit: didn’t realize this was Sandy Hook. I assumed it was a more recent shooting. My heart goes out to the US.
Unbelievably brave. Her students and their parents, and one day her students’ children, will remember with love this teacher.
I’m not amazed. I amfking FURIOUS that this country cares more about guns than Victoria. She was underpaid, overworked, and SHE HAD FAMILY THAT LOVED AND NEEDED HER.
my heart is broken, the world is broken
All the kids in the gym.
As a teacher, I’ve long grown used to and accepted the idea that I might willingly die for my students without giving it a second thought. But it sucks, because all of these teachers who have or will die don’t live in a vacuum. We have children, and spouses, parents and siblings. We matter too. And even though I’d die for my students and do anything so they didn’t have to die scared and alone, no one should ever have to end the world this way. God Bless all of those teachers who were brave enough to do what needed to be done, and may the parents of children who’ve died, know that they were loved and protected right until the very end. May that give you any measure of peace.
As great as her act was, am I wrong to feel like it is a disgusting upvote bot tactic being deployed here?
“Upvote this comment if you found the above post amazing in a positive way…”
This post is depressing. This poor woman was murdered, and had to hide children in order to protect them.
A “positive” post would be to focus on changing gun laws in order to prevent this tragedy from happening over and over again. How many children, teachers, staff, and other innocents have to die before things change?
I’m betting her life didn’t matter to insurance agencies because she wasn’t a millionaire CEO.
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😇 angels are everywhere 👼
This happened 30 minutes away from where I live. That week was rough.
a special place in the darkness waits for those who hunt the defenseless.
How Nobel. That is so selfless.
We need more heroes like this in the future. Hoping to see more names added to the list in 2025.
Murica!
On December 14, 2012, Soto was teaching her first-grade class at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when Adam Lanza made his way into the school, and began to shoot staff and students. After killing fourteen students and two teachers in the first classroom, Lanza entered Soto’s classroom. Media reports state that Soto had hidden several children in a closet, and when Lanza entered her classroom, Soto told him that the children were not there and that they were in the school gym. When several children ran from their hiding places, Lanza began shooting at the students. Soto was reportedly shot trying to shield them with her body. A photograph of Soto’s sister awaiting news of her sister on her cell phone was taken by Associated Press photographer Jessica Hill and widely reproduced across the globe. Some news outlets labeled the photograph “iconic” and said that it has come to symbolize the tragedy.
Ppl like this need to be remembered. Teachers are everyday heroes already and she went above and beyond, was quick to act and saved many lives. May she rest in peace.
That’s some real dystopian bubblegum. It’s only amazing and heartwarming in the face of the awful tragedy of an elementary school shooting.
Unfortunately they forget about the hero’s quick
And the shooters if it doesn’t fit into their narrative
Sad all around
They really need to put these schools on lockdown and change doors to the classrooms so they can’t get it ,it won’t stop everyone everytime but it’s gotta help
If we got billions and billions too send all over the world we can afford too tighten up ours schools too keep these kids safe
Wtaf if happening in America?
Why is this a thing? Why is it a trend?
Why schools? Out of all places.
R. I. P what a hero
Isn’t this sub supposed to be positive? I know you can spin it as positive obviously but like…trying to trim my social media to not doom scroll.
Brave, brave, woman. But the US will have many, many, more mass shootings until it has the courage to tackle the gun lobby.
I believe nothing changed after Sandy Hook in the US. What nation can justify this?
In contrast Scotland and Australia made a stand after their own, albeit rare, shooting tragedies.
Too bad she wasn’t a CEO. Something might of changed with our gun legislation.
May she rest in peace, a true hero
Kids in the gym
Jk, she’s a hero
We need more than “thoughts and prayers” from our elected representatives.
If they won’t make any levels of gun reform happen then vote them out.
How many more kids need to witness these school shootings?
How many parents need to worry if their kids are safe when they get on the bus to go to school?
Alex Jones needs to die as a poor man.
That was Sandy Hook. I remember hearing about what she did and will always think of her as a hero
Was only 27. Thoes kids are about 18 today soon they will be her age…
Such an important person to you that the image & post title don’t even bother to state her full name…
she defined the humanity in its purest form, for the sacrifice and hope she left behind. people like her do not act for recognition, survival or reward, they act because it is right. and their actions shakes the fabric of the universe even if for a moment.
JUEST LIKE THE FONDING FATHERS NINTEND