Teacher finds death rumors on his old school's Facebook page

bbc.com

A former teacher found rumors of his death on a Facebook page for his old school, calling the experience embarrassing and weird. Alan Wright, 74, discovered comments from 2008 on a dormant Facebook group for The Albany School stating he had died. He was touched by the tributes but found the situation strange. Wright taught at the school, now Hornchurch High School, from 1985 to 2007 and moved to Staffordshire in 2017. He was unable to contact the original poster to correct the misinformation.


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