Bahamas vs Jordan
Side-by-side comparison of how these places approach childhood.
Bahamas
Bahamian children celebrate Junkanoo with handmade costumes in street parades at dawn.
This Boxing Day and New Year festival is the cultural heart of Bahamian childhood, with months of preparation.
Jordan
One in five students in Jordanian public schools is a Syrian refugee child.
Jordan hosts 660,000 Syrian refugees, and its schools have absorbed their children through a double-shift system.
Bahamas
The Bahamas follows a British-derived 6-3-3 system with compulsory education from ages 5 to 16. Government and private schools coexist. The BJC and BGCSE national exams mirror British O-Levels and A-Levels in structure.
Jordan
Jordan's 10-2 compulsory system has expanded dramatically to absorb Syrian refugee children. Many schools operate double shifts โ Jordanian children in the morning, Syrian children in the afternoon. Education is free through secondary school.
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