A programme designed to improve discipline at Ascot High School in St Catherine has won a $100,000 boost from the FirstCaribbean International Bank (Jamaica) Limited under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme.

Bank executives Christopher Denny, director, retail banking, and Stacy Adams, administration and marketing manager, participated on Thursday in a Behaviour Modification Seminar at the school designed to bring their students into contact with "accomplished members of the society, to inspire hope and to help mould responsible citizens," according to Shannell Talbert, a dean at Ascot and an administrator of the programme.

The seminar complements a Behaviour Modification Programme (BMP) begun at Ascot High in August following a spate of violent incidents, including the stabbing of a teacher. Seminar presenters included counsellors from the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology and a behaviour-change team from the Ministry of Education's Citizen Education Programme.

Talbert explained that "the BMP programme aims to effect behaviour change in disruptive students and to reduce indiscipline in general at Ascot High while helping to develop well-rounded individuals".

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