Alright. Laugh at me. Call me a dork, a loser, say I have too much time on my hands, shake your head in complete sadness that I would even complie this list. All I\’m asking is for you not to judge me…..at least too harshly. This started out as a mere curiousity. I want to know what issues Degrassi haven\’t yet covered. And let me tell you not much. So here are the issues that Degrassi has covered up until now and why Degrassi is the greatest Canadian, high school drama ever.
- Cyber Stalkers
- Sibling Rivalry
- Step-Siblings
- Drinking
- Pornography
- Divorced Parents
- Premarital Sex
- Pathetic Crushes
- The Environment
- Abusing Ritalin
- ADD
- Gay Fathers
- Saying you’re gay when you’re really not to discourage someone
- Getting your period for the first time
- Latch-Key Kids
- Teacher-Student Relationship Rumors
- Cafeteria Health Concerns
- Playing Pranks on Teachers
- Making Teachers Cry
- Bad First Dates
- Cheerleading Being Sexist
- Contests To Win 1 Million Dollars
- Garage Bands
- Tarot Cards
- Fighting
- Pushing Down Girlfriend in Fight
- Exam Stress
- Doing Ecstasy
- Cheating on Boyfriend on Ecstasy
- Losing all your friends because of Ecstacy
- Child Abuse From Father
- Leaving your abusive father and living with a stepfather
- Parent dating a teacher
- Crashing Dances
- Dance Off
- Liking the bully’s sister
- Turning Goth
- Nepotism
- Flirting
- Erections
- Driving without a license
- Body piercing
- Frat Parties
- Rape
- Making the Weight for Wrestling
- Plus Size People
- Dating someone that reminds you of your little sister
- Liking a Gay Guy
- Being Ashamed of your heritage
- Bad Hair
- Pregnant right before the wedding when the guy doesn’t want a baby
- Marriage
- Bachelor Parties
- Strippers
- Being confused about your sexuality
- Dating a guy who’s gay
- Being too clingy/suffocating your girlfriend
- Thinking a teacher’s hot
- Telling the truth
- Getting drunk at dinner with your girlfriend’s parents
- Dressing preppy for someone else
- Discovering your inner emo self
- Condoms
- Being broken up with girlfriend when she finds condoms in your locker
- Being an Overly Controlling Sport’s team manager
- Quitting a sport because of an overly controlling sport’s team manager
- Palm Reading
- Genetically Modified Food
- Protests
- Stealing from a friend and then pawning it off
- Going to court for rape
- Abusive Father wants kid back
- Abusive Father dies in a car crash
- Finding your birth father
- Finding out your birth father is mentally retarded
- Going into Labor
- Going from cute to Sexy
- Adults trying to live vicariously through the children
- Your first gay crush
- Coming out to a friend
- Gay Bashing
- Cancer
- Stealing
- Getting mixed up in the wrong crowd
- The Popular kids
- Wet Dreams
- Winning a girl over with a song
- Telling your friend about prospectively having sex with your girlfriend
- Girlfriend dumping you for telling your friend about having sex
- Hooking up with a rebound
- Alcoholic mothers
- Cutting
- Hooking up with a guy with a girlfriend
- Hooking up with a guy with a girlfriend and not caring
- Homophobia
- Abusive Boyfriend
- Cheating on your girlfriend
- Getting caught cheating on your girlfriend
- Getting revenge on your ex
- Getting your license
- Teenage Pregnancy
- Abortion
- Detention
- Playing Hookey from school
- Being in the hospital from an abusive relationship
- Battle of the Bands
- First Date with gay guy’s first boyfriend
- Student Welfare
- Crashing your boyfriend’s car into your rapist’s car
- Coming out to your parents
- Feeling insecure about your….*private area* and trying to enlarge it
- Moving in with your boyfriend
- Public Humiliation
- School Shooting
- Student Dating a Teacher
- Proposing at the age of 16
- Bi-Polar Disorder
- Oral Sex bracelet game
- Gonorrhea
- Being Paralyzed from being shot and confined to a wheelchair indefinitely
- Gambling
- Donating Blood…and not being allowed to because your gay
- Gay boyfriend cheating on you in college
- Trying to burn down the school
- Filming a major movie at your school
- Going to London for the girl of your dreams
- Being Rejected in London by girl of your dreams
- Homelessness
- Cosmetic Surgery
- Flashing your boobs on camera
- Having the tape where your boobs are exposed e-mailed to everyone in the school
- Smoking Weed
- College Interviews
- Teen Pregnancy….again
- Going from Jock to artist
- Drug Dealing
- Overdosing on Drugs
- Mid-Life Crisis
- Christianity and “Being Saved”
- Husband cheats on wife with the principal
- Lesbians and Bi-Sexuality
- Being a Rock Star
- Abstinence vs. Protected Sex
- Bulimia
- Car Races
\”100% Intense\”
Oh my gosh I love you Karen. Best show ever.