DES MOINES, Iowa – Wisconsin teacher Megan Sampson doesn’t like presidential hopeful Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker using her as the poster child for his education reforms, regardless of whether her story is true.

Sampson spoke out when Walker used her layoff as a first-year teacher under the old system of collective bargaining as an example of what was wrong with Wisconsin education in a 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed, and asked him to cut it out, Business Insider reports.

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Walker’s focus was drawing unwanted attention at her school, she said.

So when Walker again used her story in a recent Des Moines Register opinion piece, she contacted the media to renew her complaints and distance herself from his presidential campaign, according to the news site.

“Megan Sampson was named the outstanding first-year teacher by the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English in June of 2010. A week later, she received another certificate: a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools system,” Walker wrote in the Register, according to Business Insider.

“Well, under the old union contracts, the last hired was first fired.”

The statement is accurate, and under new collective bargaining rules approved as part of Walker’s Act 10 legislation that’s no longer the case. The groundbreaking reforms not only freed school officials to make employment decisions based on ability, rather than union seniority, but also allowed districts to better manage budgets without union interference, which saved schools hundreds of millions of dollars when they needed it most.

Regardless, Sampson “would like Walker to stop using my story as a political narrative for his campaign,” according to an email she sent to Business Insider Wednesday.

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“My opinions about the union have changed over the past eight months, and I am hurt that this story is being used to make me the poster child for this political agenda,” Sampson told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after Walker’s Wall Street Journal editorial in 2011.

“Bottom line: I am trying to do my job and all this attention is interference and stress for me.”

According to the Star Tribune, she added Walker does “not have permission from me to use my story in this manner, and he still does not have my permission.”

Sampson was laid off with about 482 lower seniority teachers in Milwaukee in 2010, but eventually landed a job with the Tosa East school district, where Walker’s sons attend school, according to the Journal.

After Walker’s first reference to Sampson in 2011, “her phone rang four times during evening parent-teacher conferences and … more than a half-dozen calls from the media had filled her voice mail Thursday morning. Teachers popped into her class all day, and students kept asking her about it,” the news site reports.

That’s apparently more attention than Sampson can tolerate.

“I’m a better teacher than I am a media commodity,” she told the Journal in 2011.