Editor's note (Updated Aug. 15, 2015, 1.15am): The author of the Facebook post, Christine Chia, has responded to this article: "I disagree with Belmont's assumption that the boys had 'misplaced values' -- these are boys who've grown up to be good men (gentlemen) -- but I can agree they had 'superficial wants' - they were Sec 1 kids!"

Recently, The Straits Times forum published a letter by a recently graduated Raffles Institution boy insisting that his alma mater remain an elite school and a factory that produces Singapore's future leaders.

Whether he had an elite uncaring face is not known, but the piece sent alarm bells ringing throughout the non-elite and elite but more introspective segments of the country.

This was so as it reeked so badly of the very elitism he was trying to protect and openly defend, he shouldn't have bothered with arguing his case in so many words.

Perhaps in response to the letter, a poignant post by Christine Chia, an ex-RI teacher is making the rounds on Facebook.

In the message, she recounted how many years ago as a teacher, she got her class of rowdy RI boys with misplaced values and superficial wants to participate in a game and then turned the tables on them.

This is her anecdote: