RI Students Filmed Themselves Flushing a $50 Note Down a Toilet; RI Has Since Responded

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Boon Hun
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Covid-19 has taught us three important things:

  1. Save and scrimp as much as possible because you don’t know when you’ll lose your job
  2. Don’t do stupid things and put them online because everyone has more free time to watch videos now
  3. Everything you put online will bring real consequences

Unfortunately, three students in Raffles Institute (RI) didn’t get the memo and broke all three rules.

RI Students Filmed Themselves Flushing a $50 Note Down a Toilet

In a series of Instagram stories, youths were filmed throwing $50 notes around carelessly.

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One from somewhere high up and another down the toilet with the caption: Our Toilet Paper.

You can watch the IG-stories below:

In the clips, the youths were dressed in RI uniforms.

Image: Giphy

According to a tipoff to Mothership.sg, the incident happened in the S. Rajaratnam block on 10 June.

With such videos, you can be sure that backlash will soon follow.

And it did.

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RI Has Responded

The school revealed that three of their students were involved in the incident.

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They have been counselled by the school on the “severity and insensitivity of their actions”, and all three of them are “remorseful”.

The school added that it is disappointed with the students, seeing them “throw money away in such a careless manner”.

Their parents have been informed and the school is confident that “they will not repeat their actions in the future”.

Elitism In Singapore

So you’re wondering, isn’t this just a simple matter of kids being kids?

Well, yeah, other than the fact that they broke the Currency Act in Singapore which says that you cannot “mutilate or destroy” Singapore money.

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But there’s one other sensitive issue at play here: Elitism.

Back in 2018, the “elitism” issue was very much discussed in Singapore. (It’s still a really eye-opening topic so if you’re free, you should definitely go check out the conversations around it.)

A young lady working as a cashier got a first-hand experience of “elitist” attitude, RI stepped out to clarify that they were not an “elite” school and got shot down for it, and even Minister Chan Chun Sing came out to talk about it.

And to see students from RI, a school which probably has a significant portion of students from more affluent families, throw away money?

That raises some bad memories.

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