And since Terri transferred to private school after recovery from being put in a coma by her abusive ex-boyfriend, Rick, I guess there's no way she ever coming back to school.
Can we all agree Raditch was a shit principal for letting Rick come back in the first place? Always hated how once Rick was the victim, everyone just seemed to forget what he did to Terri. I mean, Raditch told Archie to go look for warning signs that they'd missed in his emails...What about the glaring neon light that said "domestic abuser?" You know, the one you were told about and opted to ignore?
As an educator administrator myself I will say it is super complicated situation. Because the event happened off school grounds, there needs to be a police report or some type of documentation to prove Rick is a danger to himself or other students. You cannot deny a student a public education based on the hearsay of other students. So if Terri's family did not charge Rick with anything, it puts Raditch's in a very tight spot. However, I will say there was probably some type of re-entry plan ( hence him going to counseling and seeing Ms. Sauve.) If a student does all the things needed to reenter the school...well, you can't deny him a public education.
Be that as it may, I can't help but wonder how much of this was accidentally spot-on commentary, since it was presented with no comment. By that, I mean the fact that a gay guy and a bisexual girl said to a straight man with power over them, that this other straight guy was a threat and he dismissed their concerns. Plus, it never sat right with me that Emma just started sticking up for him, knowing what it was he did to get ostracized, which made it feel like maybe the writers really didn't know what they were actually saying, here. Especially given, as I mentioned previously, Snake's outrage being that the bullying wasn't stopped, rather than that an entitled creep pointed a gun at his stepdaughter for, in Rick's creepy feelings, being a tease. I know the dominant narrative at the time was that all school shooters were misunderstood victims, but it's been lately coming out more and more how many of them were just angry entitled guys who felt they weren't getting something they were "owed," be that privilege or sex. In this way, the whole storyline feels, as I said, spot-on, but it was the people they presented it through that makes me wonder. Sorry, I feel like this got a bit rambly.
@@ChristineTheHippie I agree. I think one of Raditch's biggest faults is that he did not take student concerns seriously ( or he at least gave of the perception that he did not take them seriously). As someone who now works in schools, I cringe when I see some of the things that did not have adult intervention. However, I get that the point of the first few seasons of Degrassi was that it was supposed to be about "teens helping teens" with little to no adults intervening.
I think it was meant to be in the episode "Mercy Street." Emma was locked out of her normal friend group, and was looking to befriend Paige, Alex, Spinner, and gang. However, they saw her as "cause girl," and made fun of her. I think she was looking for their approval and was making a joke. I think her original "collection" idea was about Student Against Violence, but she decided to do it on her own without the school's official approval.
Later on in the episode where Rick comes back and Jay hits him behind the dot, when Emma tries to stop Alex quips back with something along the lines of "adopting a dolphin won't fix this" makes me feel a bit better that she didn't just pull that extremely specific response out of her ass 😂😂
It was actually a reference to a line Alex made earlier in the episode. When they were watching Rick come back to school, Emma said "we have to do something", and Alex sarcastically said "I know... we can an adopt a dolphin" ( making fun of Emma for being an environmentalist).
I knowwww it would make the setup up to their hookup more authentic, I feel like they only interacted once before when he was burying her in the sand Lmao
Hard to tell...Sean left after this & they had no interaction when he returned...Craig performed for all of them in S6 with Emma & Sean watching but no words were spoken between them 🤔🤔🤔
@@danagraslie5718 oh that’s right. Because season 3 is when they started to slowly drift apart. Season 4 episode 1 is the last time their friendship were shown where Craig ran away from home and he stayed at Sean’s place
They had no more interaction in the show after Sean left S4 to stay at his parents to heal from the shooting. And in S6 he joins Emma and Manny to go to a show where Craig is performing but doesn’t interact with him. It’s probably just a realistic case of high school friends that drift apart because of where life takes them
They shouldve kept in the scenes when Marco and Alex try to convince Raditch its not a good idea to let Rick into Degrassi and of course the one when Rick returned and bumped into Raditch
I never liked raditch I always thought he was mean and not fair Rick should not been allowed to come back after what happen he should been in jail locked up cause he pushed her and she failed and did go in coma cause of him and I felt like they should kept the scene that tells u what happen to Terri cause I never knew I thought she passed away
One of Raditch's biggest problems is that his perception of teenage problems were that they were not real problems. He saw everything as fleeting teenage angst. He also took things very personally when students did things that he did not agree with. ( Emma's protest, The Dracula Play). If it was not done his way/ not his idea, then he became personally offended. Had he given the students a proper outlet to make sure their voices are heard ( whether or not what they wanted as feasible) he would have been seen as a better principal.
nah alex and paige always made sense, they were coworkers for a long time and then became friends it was only natural for it to happen. alex and emma didn't really make any sense, didn't they fight other?? idk i've always been a huge palex shipper so maybe im biased lol
@@musiclover_kb4913 Probably deleted because Hazel said something important for once. The writers were bound and determined for her not to matter as a character.
5:49 "I actually saw someone get shot." That had to have been terrifying and so traumatizing for Craig to see Jimmy lying on the floor; however he didn't see the action of him getting shot in reel time, unlike Toby and Sean witnessing Rick getting shot and killed. Maybe he did see it happen, and it hit home for him once he realized it was his friend lying there, hurt, not just some other student (tho it would still be just as tragic). *Sigh*... Degrassi and its nuance.
A commenter brought up the fact that the coma incident with Terri was off of school grounds, so there was no way for Raditch to punish Rick via school regulations. Almost all of Rick's assaults on Terri were off campus, and while Terri carried evidence on her person to prove she was beaten, the only witnesses to the abuse were Rick and Terri themselves. It's a he said, she said scenario. As an audience we forget that we are omniscient and therefore can see and know everything that is going on while the characters in the show are limited to just their points of view. Nevertheless, even if Raditch had no physical proof to penalise Rick accordingly, he was still dismissive of his students' serious concerns, as well as Rick's welfare, and should have been more receptive of them.
@@johnathancarpentermiller6450 he was easily the second worst but the most annoying, i think that's why people say that he was the worst. raditch was definitely the worst but he wasn't really annoying or anything so that's probably why people look past him.
So I’m Kind Of.Confued When All Of These Parts Came in And Why Would Spinner Call Rick A Chicken Because. Isn’t it Obvious That Rick Would Know That Spinner & Jay were the ones that Setup The Paint and Feathers if Spinner. Was Calling Him A Chicken & Wouldn’t Mr . Raditch Know That I Guess Not
Sometimes when it's late at night and I can't sleep, I watch all of the seasons 4-7 episodes of Degrassi after the episode, Back in Black and look at all of the Degrassi students in the background and in some of those episodes, I see one who looks like Terri from a distance and part of me hopes that when I take a closer look, it'll be her again but I know deep down that that will never happen because in those episodes, the camera would zoom on that Degrassi student in the background who does look exactly like Terri from a distance to clearly show she's not.
I don't know how people discuss sexuality and affinity to certain genders but seriously Canadians...just leave it be; I , myself am undecided/bisexual kind of and I don't go talking about to everyone I meet in my daily life ?! Maybe etiquette and manner died years agozm, but I really thought that Degrassi: Next Generation would have queens like Marco in a matter more conducive to real life in North America. Honestly, why does Marco need to come out so to speak to his parents, classmates, neighbors, mailmen, etc..; why does everyone need to know his flamboyant lifestyle or the fact that he kisses and fondles teen guys and some teen girls (it is insanity) ?!
“So did we.” “Not to make this a big competition.” “But our guy died.” Sounds like you’re making it a competition, Sean. I’m glad they deleted some shit wtf?
I think I have a theory of why the Principal kept Rick despite what he did to Terri, is because Rick is one of the smartest students in Degrassi High, probably the only smartest student. Degrassi High has been suffering from low test scores and Rick has been keeping this school a float. If the Principal just transferred Rick into another school, Degrassi’s test scores will tank. And if the Principal let Terri continue to go to Degrassi High instead of Rick, she could have been deemed the lowest graded student ever .
I mean he was ok. I don't know why he was always alone with Darcy. In grades 1-12 we couldn't be alone with a teacher inside a classroom unless the door was fully open.
