Govt/Econ---BJU or Notgrass??

[4wildberrys]

I am starting to research these subjects for next year, and I really want to choose between the 2. I know they are both good and thorough, but looking at CBD at many, many page samples, it just looks like BJU is more thorough and has more thought provoking questions. Has anyone used these programs and have advice about them?

They both seem to have the same conservative Christian slant?

[Love2Smile]

:lurk5: You know I wanna know too! :)

[amtmcm]

:lurk5:

Me too!

[Yolanda in Mass]

I have never used either publisher's government curriuculum, but I have used both Notgrass and BJU US history. Although I like BJU's questions, I prefer Notgrass products for the following reasons. BJU is so busy on so many levels. The TM always has so much more information than the student text that I always feel I should share in order for the student to be completely prepared for the test questions. That alone always makes my eyes twitch. Then the text is so full of details and facts that take over any narrative or flow that the text may have aspired to have. Notgrass reads much more smoothly. Lastly, in our experience, Notgrass questions facilitate discussion more easily than do BJU questions. Notgrass was written by a homeschooling dad for homeschoolers. BJU was written for a classroom to be used by someone who doesn't teach anything else. HTH!

Yolanda

[Lolly]

I have an odd reason for liking Notgrass better.

First, I have not used BJU for either subject. I do use them for many other subjects. I have used Notgrass for govt and world history. I prefer Notgrass for these subjects because....it takes less time and effort. The information is there. It is solid. It is well presented. But, to be quite honest, govt is not a subject that I want to spend loads of time covering. I prefer to dedicate that time to math, science, writing/literature. I have found BJU to be extremely thorough but very time consuming. :D

[Susan C.]

I have an odd reason for liking Notgrass better.


. I have found BJU to be extremely thorough but very time consuming. :D

Interesting..... dd just spend most of the weekend preparing for her BJU World History test.... and I'm not sure she did very well. Her main complaint is that there are too many details, too many disjointed facts to remember..... ummmmm. But, she didn't like the Notgrass sample online.

We did BJU for Government and Economics with ds. We liked the Government, Economics was so so. Does Notgrass have Ecomonics?

[Lolly]

Interesting..... dd just spend most of the weekend preparing for her BJU World History test.... and I'm not sure she did very well. Her main complaint is that there are too many details, too many disjointed facts to remember..... ummmmm. But, she didn't like the Notgrass sample online.

We did BJU for Government and Economics with ds. We liked the Government, Economics was so so. Does Notgrass have Ecomonics?

http://www.notgrass.com/economics-high-school-curriculum.php

[4wildberrys]

Interesting..... dd just spend most of the weekend preparing for her BJU World History test.... and I'm not sure she did very well. Her main complaint is that there are too many details, too many disjointed facts to remember..... ummmmm. But, she didn't like the Notgrass sample online.

We did BJU for Government and Economics with ds. We liked the Government, Economics was so so. Does Notgrass have Ecomonics?

This is my biggest pet peeve with BJU---it's GREAT, it's THOROUGH---but just TOO much! I think Govt with Notgrass will be the better choice for my kids, but BJU's Economics is newly upgraded, and Notgrass Econ is new too---decisions, decisions! :confused:

Thanks for the replies so far. ;)