The original Degrassi junior high (1987) theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt95rcnGrS8

lyrics

Wake up in the morning, Feeling shy and lonely, Gee, I gotta go to school. I don’t think I can make it, Don’t think I can take it, I wonder what I’m gonna do! But when I look around, I see, That someone’s smiling, right at me. Wait! That someone’s talkin’ to me. Hey, I got a new friend. Everybody can succeed, All you need is to believe, And be honest with yourself, Forget your fears and doubts. Come on give us a try, At Degrassi Junior High!

The original Degrassi kids are comrades. Their rising call for solidarity ( “everybody can succeed [at once]”) echoes Debs’ Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act: that none can succeed without the others; for one to fail is for all a failure

The updated Degrassi Next Generation (2001) theme song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFB1qcIykI

lyrics

Whatever it takes, I know I can make it through If I hold out, I know I can make it through Be the best (Be the best I can, and I say to you) Whatever it takes (I know I can make it) I know I can make it I know I can make it through—

The children of Degrassi The Next Generation are fully neoliberal subjects at the End of History. They cannot envision their own collective future, each desiring only that they alone “make it though” by “holding out” and being “the best”, i.e. dominating the free market of childhood using “whatever it takes”, i.e. through unequal exchange

Also how did they get away with that title