Then there is Katelyn Campbell, 18, whose objection to a factually dubious sex-education assembly at her high school bubbled over into a confrontation with her principal, which bubbled over onto the Internet.
These values are fundamental to our societies and cultures: democracy, liberty, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of education and assembly.
Few people had much formal education, and assembly-line workers rarely had time to use the Internet.
Spreading terror throughout the white South, his action set off a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery, antiabolitionist convictions that persisted in that region until the American Civil War (1861 65).
Now - as long as it sticks to devolved policies like health and education - the assembly can pass primary legislation much quicker.
The WJEC letter came as the education minister told assembly members that his investigation into the GCSE grades will be based on evidence and not "reckless speculation".
Robert Ashcroft led the burgeoning movement for higher education in the Assemblies of God, serving as president of three small Church-affiliated colleges.
Angela Burns, Conservative shadow education minister in the assembly, said: "These truly appalling figures show Wales' educational performance has at best stagnated, and at worst declined, and that in educational terms, Labour ministers have wasted the past three years".
Early on, Diana McDaniel lobbied the state assembly and education board to open the stadiums and gyms to the home-schooled.
Instead of the customary five periods of math a week, these children got 10, giving up electives like physical education, home economics and assembly.
Darren Millar, the Conservative party's shadow secretary for education in the Welsh assembly, said it is frustrating that Wales was being outperformed by the rest of the UK.
