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## Some Statistics

May 1st, 2009 | Tags:
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I’ve been working since I started this site to make sure that parents knew what was posted here before they sent their kids to Leelanau. It’s a part of the strategy: Leelanau won’t change their policies until we make it impossible to do otherwise. We need to make in their interest to respect rights like free speech and we can do that by hitting them where it hurts: their wallet. When parents read what’s on this site, they’re more likely to be suspicious of the schools claims, ask questions, stay involved, and often times never send their kids to boarding school in the first place. Leelanau is losing money and losing parents. It’s working.

We’ve been keeping track of Google searches that lead people here and here are some results generated over a three month period.

Search | Avg. Position Number | Position Number Right Now

Leelanau School|9|5
The Leeelanau School|7|5
Patrick Begg|8
How to Get Past Fortiguard|10
Leelanau School Alumni|8
How to Beat Fortiguard|5
Matt Ralston|10
Leelanau School Complaints|2
Leelanau School Abuse|1

These searches come from all over the world including South Korea.

16 people are currently following us on <a href=”http://www.twitter.com/leelanautalk”>our Twitter feed<a>.

Despite the school threatening people over it, we have continued to offer the Leelanau Underground Press archive to the public as well as provide timely, accurate reporting on life at The Leelanau School. We’ve also been working behind the scenes, providing students access to PO boxes and software they can use to bypass web filters. We’ve got big plans that include buying Google Ads so that nobody searches Leelanau without finding out about us and we’d also love to give free, unfiltered, and independent internet to students, but all of those things cost money. As do flyers, CDs with anti-filter software, pamphlets, care packages, and a number of other things we’d like to do. Many students receive upwards of $20/week in allowance that could be spent on whatever they want, so why is it that nobody has donated anything?

Despite the work that is continually put into this site, we have never received a single donation. We’ve been paying out of our own pockets for web hosting, domain names, and bandwidth. While we don’t keep statistics to protect the privacy of our users, based on our bandwidth fees it looks like up to a hundred people visit this site each month.

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