Degrassi High followed the characters fromwhen they went to high school after their middle school burnt down. The show covered two years of high school. The show premiered in the fall of 1989 and ran until the spring of 1991, lasting two seasons. At the end of the series, there was a TV-movie called . The movie dealt with the main characters having their last summer together before they go out into the real world. The show dealt with realistic issues that teens still deal with today such as: sex, drugs, sexual identity, peer pressure, abusive boyfriends/parents, anorexia, homosexuality, teen pregnancy, drugs, and suicide. Currently 9.5/10