Before Euphoria and Heartbreak High, there were the Degrassi kids, from Junior High to the Next Generation. We speak to some of the original stars about why it is still so loved
rom the late 80s to the early 90s, a generation of impressionable youngsters watched a bunch of kids at a fictional school in Toronto. They had fights, got bullied, hooked up, broke up, got pregnant, had abortions, overdosed, had breakdowns, and died by suicide. They endured the unimaginable and the breathtakingly feasible. They were the first teenagers many of us saw who lived the way we lived, endured what we endured. And they never talked down to us.
When I was 11, my parents abruptly sent me to a new school, an experience I found profoundly jarring. But these characters who had been attending school alongside me on the TV were enduring that same seismic shift. Degrassi’s evolution from Junior High to High was an incredibly accurate depiction of what happens when you’re forced to move schools; everything you worked so hard to build is gone.
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