Teen drama series. A new generation of kids living on Toronto's Degrassi Street start out at Degrassi Community School. Like their predecessors in Degrassi Junior High they have to learn to deal with the ups and downs of teenage life. More conflict for Mia between schoolwork and modelling - she has an important speech assignment but it clashes with a modelling job. Everyone is faced with tough decisions - Sav's father wants to forbid him from studying music at college and Holly J's art teacher thinks she doesn't have what it takes to get the grades.