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[quote=Anonymous]University Park is home to a good number of faculty members (tenured).  Greenbelt has a decent number of faculty as well (usually a bit younger).  A LOT of faculty are in MoCo, or pockets in DC, a few up in Howard County, or even in Alexandria there are a fair number of faculty from UMD.  People are very scattered.  We've lived in a fair number of college towns at this point and this is the only place we've lived where there was not a high concentration of faculty members in the neighborhoods closest to the university.  The public school options really have chased people off, hence this proposed middle school.  Anecdotally (and I can't vouch for the truth of these stories), I've heard that some of the highly recruited full profs that have been brought in have had private school perks (or salary boosts to account for paying private here) negotiated into their contracts.  The reputation of the PG publics is pretty terrible.  You have the double whammy of PG having a reputation as a high-crime county.  We live in PG near the university.  As I mentioned before, I love our neighborhood.  I have never felt unsafe here, it is incredibly convenient, we have great neighbors, there is a strong sense of community, and we've got easy access to the university for work and fun events.  But our kids are in private (didn't get in via lottery to the specialty programs).  We were hopeful about the new school being a good alternative once they hit middle school, but I'm very skeptical now given the info they've put out so far.  [/quote]

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