From Melissa Hank of O.Canada.com:
Degrassi creator talks show ending, surprise cameos in Next Class
“Even before we knew what was going to happen with Degrassi, creatively we had already come to the conclusion that because we were going to graduate such a big chunk of kids, we needed to take a hard look at where we were going to go from here,†Schuyler says.
“We realized that when the show started as Degrassi: The Next Generation 14 years ago, a lot of the current audience wasn’t even born, which led us to a lot of research on Generation Z. We had a different audience.†Continue reading.
What’s interesting is that there are nextgen Degrassi characters who are old enough to be teachers. I think it would be great to have one of them come on the show again as a teacher.