#daniel raditch

[degrassi-fandom-confessions]

I sent Mr. Raditch to the bad boy barrel for three days and now he isn't answering me, please help /j

[spinelli-gemelli]

A Degrassi Essay About Rick Murray

(Part 3c)

We left things off on a cliffhanger in 3b...sort of. Still on the subject of Daniel Raditch, we answered two questions related to him, which I've included below alongside my corresponding responses:

Could Raditch have prevented tragedy from happening? (Yes, he could have and should have.)

Could Raditch have prevented Rick from returning to school in the first place? (Unfortunately, no.)

For those of you that are wondering, "What do you mean Raditch couldn't keep Rick away? He put her in a coma!" Allow me to explain in this essay. In part 3c, and this will be the last of part 3, we will look at Rick's abusive history with Terri in detail in order to better understand why Mr. Raditch couldn't just prevent Rick from enrolling in classes at Degrassi. Three factors come into play here: lack of evidence, no witnesses, and the locations of Rick's abuse.

Any true Degrassi fan would remember our introduction to Rick's character way back in episode 3x08 "Whisper to a Scream". He is portrayed as the shy but endearing hopeless romantic that was also Terri's love interest and secret admirer, the latter unbeknownst to Terri at first.

Rick anonymously tapes roses to Terri's locker for her to receive. Even though Terri wants Rick to be her admirer, she doesn't believe that he is (Poor Terri. Have some confidence, girl!). Finally, she waits after school to find out who's leaving her roses, and...her wish comes true! It's Rick! They kick things off pretty quickly, and by episode 3x10 "Never Gonna Give You Up", they are officially dating. The writers did a stellar job at gradually revealing Rick's true nature to the audience. Bit by bit we see his layers unravelling: from him being threatened by Terri and Jimmy's friendship; to him ordering for Terri at the Dot; to him insisting that Terri should listen to his stage directions and not Jimmy's even though Jimmy is the director. Finally, half way through 3x10, we see Rick's true colors. After Terri takes Rick's poor advice (or a poor interpretation of his advice: whichever), she embarrasses herself on stage the day of the final performance, and everyone laughs at her. We then cut to Terri and Rick walking home behind an alleyway. Rick is perky and quirky, asking about what movie they should go see. He seems to have forgotten about what happened to Terri at school, but Terri hasn't. She's short with him in this scene, curtly asking him to talk about how, thanks to his pointers, she was mortified in theater class. Rick seems annoyed here and doesn't think there's anything to discuss. Terri continues, saying that she "looked like an idiot...because of [Rick]."

"Excuse me?" Rick replies in a tone that resembles "What did you just say to me?"

Terri is still hung up about what happened to notice Rick's change in demeanor. "Everyone was laughing." She says. "I should have listened to Jimmy."

Immediately after the word Jimmy comes out of her mouth, Rick grabs Terri's wrist and twists her arm around. He proceeds to tell her, as he's squeezing her, that he doesn't like the tone of voice that Terri had with him and that it made him feel stupid. We then cut to a shocked and frightened Terri pleading for Rick to release her hand.

Let's discuss the context in which this occurred. Terri and Rick were in a back alleyway, away from the school's campus, and no one else was around. The only evidence that would hold up after the fact would be the bruise on Terri's wrist.

Let's now look at the second time Rick struck Terri. He slaps his girlfriend across the face after she tells him he's being crazy for not wanting her to go to a girls' night gathering without him (Well...yeah, you are crazy for thinking that, Rick). Here Terri and Rick are at Degrassi, in the gymnasium, but no one else is around to witness the ordeal. Again, Terri will carry the physical evidence on her person that she had been hit, but in time it will heal, erasing any proof that Rick laid hands on her.

The third time Rick lashes out at Terri takes place in the back alleyway yet again. The same details hold true: no witnesses outside of Terri and Rick; no evidence other than maybe a bruise on her back after Rick pushes her back against a cardboard wall; and they are, once again, off school grounds. Here he gets angry after Terri tells Rick that he's suffocating her, which is true. After this incident, Terri has finally had enough of being pushed around, and she dumps Rick right there on the spot.

We can conclude that Terri had told her friends all about Rick as the final scene in this episode shows her talking to her friends Jimmy and Hazel in the halls. There seems to be a happy ending here. Yeah, Rick is crazy and abused Terri, but she broke up with him, and if Rick tried anything, her friends would come after him in a heartbeat. It was clear that Terri felt safe around her friends and wasn't worried about Rick coming after her again, especially after she made it clear that she wasn't just going to take him back after all that he did, so what did she need to go to the police for? They didn't need to be involved. Her dad didn't have to know. She handled the situation quite well for a fifteen/sixteen year old girl. Soon the bruises fade, and life goes on as if she never met Rick.

But something happens a few months down the road. Rick and Terri are partnered up in theater class, forced to work with each other as everyone else gets paired up. Rick is assigned to catch Terri in a trust fall exercise. Terri, being self-conscious about her weight and weary around her abusive ex, doubts that Rick will catch her, but he proves her wrong. After class, he apologizes for the way he treated her in their last relationship. We can see Terri having a change of heart during this conversation. After all, Rick seems sincere here: he makes direct eye contact with Terri as he apologizes to her and says that he misses her. Although we can still see a sliver of his arrogance slide through before he apologizes, there isn't a trace of malice about him. Terri eventually lets her defenses down and decides to take him back. It's unclear whether Rick asked Terri out or the other way around. Either way, the next time we see the pair, they walk into The Dot to catch up with the gang: Paige, Spinner, Jimmy, and Hazel.

The Grade Ten Circle is going out for a weekend getaway. Paige’s folks are out of town and left her the car keys, and it's a couples hang out day, which is what partially motivated Terri to take back Rick in the first place. While Rick and Terri are dining off separately, the other four deliberate on whether or not they should include them on the trip. After a brief discussion, the group decides it's best to keep their friends close and their enemies closer, concerned about Terri's welfare if they leave Rick behind without any of them being there to look out for her. Spinner was actually the first of the friend group to suggest this, which I was both impressed and touched by. Spinner has always had a soft spot for Terri, it seems, and in the scene at The Dot, he was the one being the most tactful about the situation rather than letting his feelings about Rick get the better of him. This is probably the only time in the entire Rick arc where Spinner thinks with his head instead of his fists.

The party of four is now six, and they all ride in Paige's van to a park. We notice the awkward group dynamic right away as everyone is scrambling to get away from Rick except for Terri. It makes you wonder how long the car ride was, and what it was like to be in the van with all six of them.

Paige certainly wasn't the one spreading joy and good cheer as we see in her interactions with Rick. As he sits on the front of Paige's van and encourages Terri to do the same, Paige rudely tells him that she'd rather not have him do that. Rick insists that he's not causing any damage to the vehicle, but before their little spat can continue, Terri warmly invites Rick to sit on the picnic bench with him. He relents, sliding off the vehicle and accepting Terri's invitation. Once again, you can see all the other guys, who were just sitting on the bench, move away once Rick saunters over. We can see Rick is mildly aggravated by the time he joins Terri, yet his girlfriend consoles him and tells him not to worry about Paige.

Unfortunately this isn't the last of their feud. We cut to a later scene where Rick momentarily separates from Terri to join Spinner and Jimmy, who we see tossing a frisbee back and forth between each other. Paige uses this opportunity to sit and talk to Terri. She gently urges her to come hang out with her girl pals, but Terri politely rejects the offer. Then Paige extends an invitation for her to hang out with the girls later that evening, but Terri is receptive of Paige's real motives this time and insists that there's nothing to worry about. At this point, Paige ditches the pleasantries and cuts straight to the chase. "So what, you've just forgiven Creep Boy for beating you up?" She hurls at Terri. Terri then says that Rick apologized for what happened before. "Of course!" Paige retorts. "His type always does so they can...get another shot in at you."

Rick, of course, overhears the ordeal. It's not like they were exactly whispering. He comes out from behind the van and immediately gets into it with Paige, telling her she's a vicious backstabber among other things.

"Oh I'm vicious?" Paige rises to the occasion, taking a not-so-subtle jab at Rick's nature.

"Everything you say is a judgement to you." Rick goes on to say. "You think you're so perfect!"

Paige is shocked by his audacity and fires back. "Well I'd rather be that than a psycho!"

We can see that she hit a sensitive spot with Rick. He storms off into the woods but not before kicking Paige's van in the process. Everyone around them has stopped what they were doing as they watch Paige and Rick yell at each other. Once Rick is out of sight, Terri stands from her seat and confronts Paige. She takes sides with Rick, saying that she's tired of Paige pushing her around and telling her what to do.

"Fine." Paige says. "If I'm such a bad friend then go after him. Go!" Ironically she proves Terri right: Paige is telling her what she should do yet again.

Terri catches up with Rick, and she finds him...pulling up cinder blocks? Kicking the dirt and pacing in a circle? It's a little strange, I must admit. He's taking out his anger on the soil...for now. Terri apologizes about Paige and politely asks Rick to calm down. Surprisingly he cooperates, then continues to say that he's happy that they're back together. After their small display of affection, Terri encourages Rick to come back, holding his hand and moving back from where they came. In the same instant, you can see Rick closing his fingers around Terri's hand, refusing to go back to the main group, insisting instead that they walk the other way.

Terri isn't interested. "It's really far." She says to Rick, and she's probably right. There's a reason why they drove all the way out to the park. It's completely reasonable to not want to walk back into town, but Rick doesn't see it that way. "She called me a psycho." Rick jerks Terri back towards him, his tone tight. Terri is frustrated that Rick isn't seeing the big picture. "That's just Paige being Paige." She tells him.

The old Rick resurfaces, and he holds Terri in place with a vice grip, his hands now squeezing both of her elbows. "And that makes it okay? Do my feelings mean nothing to you?" I'll try not to reenact the whole scene, but Rick's anger continues to escalate, he accuses Terri of choosing Paige over him, and refuses to let Terri go as she tells him that she wants to return to the group. Rick is so angry that he's stuttering over his words. "You c-c-can't leave, do you understand?" He says in a shaky voice.

"Rick, you're hurting me!" Terri says, and she appears afraid.

Rick yells at Terri in his second most famous moment. "You're not going. You're not! NOT! NOT!" He pushes her back as Terri is trying to pull away, and their combined forces cause Terri to fall to ground, her head crashing back against a cinder block, which knocks her out cold. When Terri doesn't move, Rick's anger is replaced with panic and alarm. Eventually Paige and Spinner make their way towards the two, and Rick, panicking once he sees the pair, runs off deeper into the woods, leaving his unconscious girlfriend behind.

If it wasn't obvious before, Rick's final and near fatal attack on Terri did not occur on school grounds, and, once again, no one was present at the time of the incident other than the victim and the perpetrator, making Paige's and Spinner's eyewitness testimonies look bleak since they showed up after it happened. For all they know, it could have been an accident.

We reflected on Rick's history of abuse in detail to prove that there wasn't much that Raditch could do to prove that Rick was a danger. It all comes down to three things: no evidence, no witnesses, and the locations of the abuse. The principal's jurisdiction begins and ends at school, which means that anything that happens outside of Degrassi is not his responsibility. True, we the viewers know how dangerous Rick is in season three and potentially is come season four. Terri's friends also know, but they have no evidence to support their claims. The only way they can prevent Rick from returning to the school is if they can prove he is guilty of aggravated assault, which would convict him, thus preventing him from enrolling in classes at Degrassi. Because Terri and her friends failed to get adult help when they found out she was being abused by her boyfriend, there was no intervention until it was too late. Terri is the only person that would be able to bring justice to herself if she reported the incident to the police, but because she suffered a traumatic brain injury, it has probably inhibited her ability to remember the events clearly. It also appears that Terri's dad never went to law enforcement, from what we've seen on the show. My prediction is that Rick's parents helped Terri's dad pay for any necessary expenses surrounding Terri's injury to smooth things over. This whole ordeal sucked for Terri, but Raditch doesn't have anything to go off of other than the words of his students, which, unfortunately in this case, is not enough. While he certainly isn't principal of the year, I don't believe that Raditch is to blame for letting Rick return to Degrassi, which is beyond unfair, but life is never fair.

[degrassi-daily]

DEGRASSI starring... DANIEL CLARK as SEAN CAMERON

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DJH- S1E3: The Experiment

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

Degrassi the next generation 407

-Emma really said "they don't like you cause they don't know you" like Rick didn't put Terri in the hospital

- "I don't deserve this nobody does" well Terri didn't deserve to have an abusive boyfriend or end up in the hospital

- why does Jimmy look sad? Like Rick doesn't have anger management issues

- I'm not a fan on bullying, especially not bullying the kid that obviously that's something wrong with him. They should have just ignored him.

*time stands still pt 2

-"He's really nice" I know Toby wants friends since JD ditch him, but trying to befriend a guy that literally put his ex-girlfriend in a coma isn't the move.

- I was really starting to like Jimmy. "Cut the guy some slack, he's not that bad." Terri would beg to differ.

-Jimmy is really sticking up for Rick right now. Was the paint prank mean oh totally but you can't say Rick didn't deserve it. Rick deserves much worse actually. "Save the bully crap for someone who won't fight back"

-"im sorry for hurting Terri" little too late.

-Rick just shot Jimmy

-"Im glad I found you, Emma, you made my list. You flirted with me, I thought you liked me but that was something else. My life can't get any worse."

- Go Sean for trying to save Emma. That was really brave of him also trying to stop Rick from firing off the gun again.

- I blame the principal, There were signs that Rick was clearly unstable, you don't abuse your girlfriend and have anger issues. That was a sign right there, and the principal welcomed Rick back to school with open arms.

-Why are they telling Hazel, Jimmy's girlfriend that he got shot, that's so weird to me. I mean I feel like a parent would have spoken to her not a teacher.

-Terri isn't being brought up enough. They're just like the bullying is the main reason he did it, like no. I'll say for the millionth time he's had problems since the whole beating up Terri storyline. He literally put a girl in the hospital. The bullying didn't just start out of the blue like they didn't just pick on Rick without an explanation.

-im not going to watch the Degrassi minis, but the fact that it's the 3 year anniversary of the school shooting and Spinner has to apologize for bullying Rick is just one of the stupidest things I've ever read in my life. Rick, since he's first appearance in Degrassi, has/had underlined issues, he was going to do something sooner or later, whether the bullying was happening or not.

-They tried to make you feel sorry for him🙄

[broomheadz]

Dan Raditch Fashion DH S2E1: Bad Blood Part 1 Aired: 1989

Raditch is just having a normal fashion day until he learns that his least favorite student is parading nude in the cafeteria – then Raditch loses his jacket in an effort to sprint over there.

[degrassibenji]

Two careers: Daniel Woods is juggling a career as a disc jockey on CHWO in Halton and CJMR in Mississauga and playing Mr. Raditch; the stern English teacher; in CBC's DeGrassi Junior High.

[519magazine]

Principal Raditch Rediscovers Degrassi at Windsor ComiCon

Windsorite Dan Woods has had considerable success with classic automobile television shows like Chop Cut Rebuild and Classic Car Restorations, but for most viewers he’ll always be remembered as Principal Daniel Raditch on Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High and Degrassi: The Next Generation. The star of the quirky, cutting edge CBC and CTV shows will be at Windsor ComiCon with fellow Degrassi stars Pat Mastroianni (Joey Jeremiah) and Stacie Mistysyn (Caitlin Ryan) on September 29 and 30. “You don’t really realize how much the show has impacted people’s lives until you have people coming up to you telling you how important the show was to them when they were younger,” Woods says of the Degrassi phenomenon in an interview for 519 Magazine. “You sort of lose that over the years and forget about it. And then you get a great reminder when people are so enthralled to come meet you. It’s really humbling.” The original cast of Degrassi High reunited for the first time in 20 years at Toronto’s ComiCon in 2017 amidst Degrassi Junior High’s 30th anniversary. For more than three decades Degrassi has grown to become a large part of Canadian pop culture and almost an international calling card for growing up in Canada. The original show ran from 1987 until 1989, and was followed by Degrassi High in 1990-91 and the long lived Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2001-2015. Over those years, the Degrassi gang dealt with topics such as suicide, HIV and AIDS, drugs, and alcohol. For Woods, the controversy peaked with a two-part special depicting a high school shooting at Degrassi High in 2004. “There’s actually been a few shootings on the Degrassi series,” Woods explains. “There was a suicide in Degrassi High, followed by Aubrey being shot in Next Generation and then a couple seasons later another primary character was killed. The writers of the show were watching things going on in the US at the time and would take stories from the actors about what was happening at their actual school and incorporate them into storylines. The big thing at the time was Columbine which happened in between Degrassi High and Next-Generation. The idea that Mr. Raditch would have been transferred as a result of that shooting is generally what the Canadian attitude would be.” Woods is looking forward to Windsor ComiCon. “We’re going to give fans of the show an opportunity to talk with us, meet us and share their stories about the show,” Woods adds. “You’ll find that Pat, Stacie and myself are very open to talking about the show and sharing our memories with fans. And we’re getting the good fortune of meeting the ones who gave us a chance to enter their homes and lives.” Windsor ComiCon takes place at The Colosseum at Caesars Windsor September 29 and 30. Tickets start at $20. Visit windsorcomicon.com. Read the full article

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1 “Evergreen” 1/5 The family of a rebellious teenager (Amber Tamblyn) moves to a gated community which has a unique and grisly way of dealing with troubled youth.

2 “One Night at Mercy” 3/5 A doctor named Dr. Jay Ferguson saves a strange patient (Jason Alexander) from suicide, only to learn that he is Death incarnate looking to take a break from his life’s work.

3 “Shades of Guilt” 4/5 After leaving a dark-skinned professor (Hill Harper) who’s asking for help, Matt McGreevy (Vincent Ventresca) soon learns to regret his action as he slowly begins to resemble the man.

4 “Dream Lover” 1/5 A comic book graphic artist named Andrew Lomax (Adrian Pasdar) somehow makes his dream girl (Shannon Elizabeth) real to help him with his writer’s block. However, who is real and who is fictional becomes unclear.

5 “Cradle of Darkness” 1/5 A woman (Katherine Heigl) working for a time travel organization is sent back in time to kill Adolf Hitler in infancy and prevent his reign of terror.

6 “Night Route” 4/5 After nearly being hit by a car, a female English professor named Melina Kroner (Ione Skye) is haunted by a strange bus appearing in her street.

7 “Time Lapse” 1/5 An orderly named Zack Walker (Ethan Embry), suffering from blackouts, learns that the gaps in time that he can’t remember were the result of a cop—briefly switching bodies with him—trying to prevent the assassination of the President’s daughter.

8 “Dead Man’s Eyes” 3/5 After the husband of Lauren Janus (Portia de Rossi) is murdered, she is inconsolable. At the trial, she absentmindedly places his glasses on her face—and suddenly, she is able to see through his eyes. The glasses recorded the man’s last moments, so his wife decides to try and solve the case—but she must face a very dangerous and familiar murderer.

9 “The Pool Guy” 3/5 A pool cleaner named Richie Almares (Lou Diamond Phillips) is having a recurring nightmare of a deceased man (Mackenzie Gray) who keeps telling him to wake up before shooting him.

10 “Azoth the Avenger Is a Friend of Mine” 1/5 A young boy named Craig Henson (Rory Culkin), beset by an abusive father and neighborhood bullies, wills his favorite superhero Azoth the Avenger (Patrick Warburton) to life, who teaches him about vengeance and courage.

11 “The Lineman” 2/5 After being struck by lightning, a lineman named Tyler Ward (Jeremy Piven) gains the ability to hear other people’s thoughts. Using his newfound powers for his own personal and financial gain, he soon realizes that everything comes with a price.

12 “Harsh Mistress” 1/5 A struggling musician named Cory Williams (Lukas Haas) purchases an infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with a surprising price tag.

13 “Upgrade” 4/5 A housewife named Annie (Susanna Thompson), humiliated by her loutish husband and unruly children, wishes for a better life, only to find that reality wants to replace her as well.

14 “To Protect and Serve” 5/5 An idealistic police officer named Eric Boggs (Usher), determined to keep a prostitute (Samantha Becker) safe from her pimp, will stop at nothing in this world to protect her.

15 “Chosen” 5/5 A hopeless and destitute man named Vincent Hansen (Jake Busey) angrily rebuffs two persistent missionaries who may well have the answer to all of his problems at the time when some people start to disappear.

16 “Sensuous Cindy” 1/5 Having sworn off all other women upon getting engaged, a man named Benjamin Baker (Greg Germann) is put to the test by a virtual-reality beauty named Cindy (Jaime Pressly).

17 “Hunted” 1/5 A futuristic society is attacked by a vicious and mysterious murderer.

18 “Mr. Motivation” 1/5 A sinister toy doll (voiced by Pat O'Brien) encourages a timid man named Charles Stickney (Wallace Langham) to stand up to his boss Rick (Christopher McDonald) and take control of his life.

19 “Sanctuary” 2/5 Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a sports agent named Scott Turner (Rob Estes) and a real estate agent named Marisa Sanborn (Elizabeth Berkley) soon find their idyllic world crumbling thanks to an injured motorcyclist (Nicki Aycox) and her working cell phone.

20 “Future Trade” 3/5 A man named Martin Donner (Frank Whaley) with a dead-end job at a big-box store and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with a trophy wife (Sofia Milos). But he must have forgotten the age-old cliché: if something seems too good to be true, it probably is.

21 “Found and Lost” 2/5 A businessman named Sean Moore (Brian Austin Green) gets a chance to revisit the past and make another bid for Elizabeth Wicker (Moira Kelly) who was the woman that he loved.

22 “Gabe’s Story” 3/5 A deliveryman named Gabe O'Brien (Christopher Titus) suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.

23 “Last Lap” 5/5 A terminally ill young man named Andy Perez (Clifton Collins, Jr.) and his best friend Marco Flores (Greg Serano) take a final ride in their souped-up racer that results in unexpected consequences for both.

24 “The Path” 2/5 A dissatisfied tabloid journalist named Ally Warner (Linda Cardellini) entrusts her fate in the hands of a fortune teller named Kamayo (Method Man) who gives her scoops in advance. However, her “sure thing” has hidden problems.

25 “Fair Warning” 4/5 A flower shop clerk named Tina Bishop (Taryn Manning) is viciously stalked by one of the multiple personalities of a troubled pet store employee named George Straitton (Devon Gummersall).

26 “Another Life” 5/5 Famous rapper Marvin Gardens (Wood Harris) overcame a tough childhood in the projects to become a millionaire with a wife, son, and mansion. However, painful, confusing visions plague him to the point that the thin line between real and fantasy is crossed.

27 “Rewind” 2/5 A compulsive gambler named Jonah Beach (Eddie Kaye Thomas) mysteriously learns how to travel back in time, believes he has found a sure bet to win big at the casinos. He soon discovers, however, that everything is a gamble.

28 “Tagged” 1/5 A gang member and tagger named Marcus Fisher (Todd Williams) confesses to murder when a mural painted by the victim transforms itself into a version of the crime scene.

29 “Into the Light” 2/5 A teacher (Samantha Mathis) gains the power to predict death.

30 “It’s Still a Good Life” 0/5 In the sequel to the 1961 episode “It’s a Good Life”, Anthony Fremont (Bill Mumy), the young boy who once terrorized his town with his amazing mental powers, is now a man and the proud father of a little girl (Liliana Mumy) whose mental powers are stronger than his.

31 “The Monsters Are on Maple Street” 0/5 In this update of the 1960 episode “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street,” a neighborhood begins suspecting their new neighbors of terrorism after the power and water get cut off.

32 “Memphis” 4/5 A law clerk named Ray Ellison (Eriq La Salle) with only six months to live due to a brain tumor finds himself in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. is going to be assassinated.

33 “How Much Do You Love Your Kid?” 5/5 A woman named Donna Saicheck (Bonnie Somerville) who is contemplating divorce from her husband Ted (Steve Bacic) gets a phone call from the police that her son has been kidnapped. Donna then sees this as part of a twisted reality game show hosted by a man known as Nick Dark (Wayne Knight).

34 “The Placebo Effect” 5/5 A description of an unnamed disease that the hypochondriac Harry Raditch (Jeffrey Combs) supposedly has comes to life when those around him become infected.

35 “Cold Fusion” 4/5 A brilliant physicist named Paul Thorson (Sean Patrick Flanery) is ordered by the military to a remote Arctic lab where the final start-up preparations for an infinite power source are taking place. He becomes involved in a deadly psychological struggle with the device’s creator (Ian McShane).

36 “The Pharaoh’s Curse” 3/5 An aspiring magician named Mario Devlin (Shawn Hatosy) seeks to learn the secret behind a legendary trick by legendary magician Harry Kellogg (Xander Berkeley).

37 “The Collection” 5/5 A night of babysitting turns to cold terror when a young woman named Miranda Evans (Jessica Simpson) realizes that the eerily lifelike doll collection of her client Danielle Rander (Ashley Edner) may explain the mysterious disappearances of the previous babysitters.

38 “Eye of the Beholder” 0/5 In this remake of the classic Twilight Zone episode, a beautiful woman named Janet Tyler (Molly Sims) in a futuristic society where everyone is hideous undergoes her 11th attempt at surgically being like everyone else.

39 “Developing” 2/5 A young photographer named Edie Durant (Robin Tunney) discovers photos of her dead fiancé that could never had been taken and remains convinced that it is her deceased lover calling her to be with him in death.

40 “The Executions of Grady Finch” 3/5 A death row inmate named Grady Finch (Jeremy Sisto) claims to his lawyer Liz (Alicia Witt) that he is innocent as an unknown force ends up interfering in his executions.

41 “Homecoming” 2/5 An army officer named Rob Malone (Gil Bellows) comes home to try and make amends with his wayward son Trace (Penn Badgley) before the boy learns his terrible secret.

42 “Sunrise” 5/5 Five college students named Marty (Jonathan Jackson), Amber (Sarah Carter), Noah (Michael Peña), Eve (Lauren Lee Smith), and Wesley (Tyler Labine) explore an Aztec site. They carelessly knock over a jug filled with blood and in an instant, the sun goes out. The Earth will die unless something is done. According to some carvings, the only way to reverse the curse is to sacrifice someone.

43 “Burned” 1/5 An agoraphobic real-estate mogul named Scott Crane (Jason Bateman) is haunted by the ghosts of twin children killed in an arson he paid a man to commit.

[bettinagurl]

Rhompin' Rockin' Raditch.

Degrassi Junior High S01E02

[degrassi-fandom-confessions]

I want Mr. Raditch to go outside

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Raditch

More like

Radish

(Edit of his face in a radish)

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Mr. Feeny would beat Raditch ass

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I like when armstrong tells radich "buzz off NERD I'm bout start this lesson" and radich is like "biiiitch, you better not be in a committed relationship with this student right now"

[degrassi-fandom-confessions]

Top 3 dweebs. Derek, snake, raditchs

[spinelli-gemelli]

A Degrassi Essay About Rick Murray

(Part 3b.)

"...One kid who you've personally spoken to twice in the last two days...did you listen?"

In the last installment, we looked at Raditch's role in the tragedy and asked whether or not he could have intervened in Rick's predicament to potentially stop tragedy from befalling Degrassi. There were two questions that we were set to explore: could Raditch have prevented this from happening? Could he have prevented Rick from returning to school in the first place? If this is your first time visiting my essay series, please start with part one. If you're only interested in the topic of Daniel Raditch, start with part 3a, the first installment where we look at the principal's part in Rick's story.

Let's start with the second part of the answer to the first question: could Mr. Raditch have prevented tragedy from happening? In part 3a, I mention there were two instances in the show where we learn that Rick went to the principal numerous times for help, and we already looked at the scene from part one of the famous two-parter "Time Stands Still." The second time this is mentioned in the show is in part two of this episode, aka, episode 4x08. My original plan was to include both of these moments in part 3a, but since I wound up saying a lot about the scene in 4x07, the scene from 4x08 had to be pushed back into this post. I don't want to overwhelm you all with too much content in one post, especially since this is turning out to be a lengthy essay series, so, without further Ado, let's get back into it.

This scene occurs after the tragic events take place. We see that the school is on lockdown. We see our beloved Degrassi, a place that the viewers grew to love for the past three seasons, swarmed with police cars, ambulance trucks and the S.W.A.T. team. Students are forced to stay in the classrooms, and parents are barred from entering the school until the lockdown is over. In one scene, we cut to the M.I. lab where we see Christine Nelson, aka Spike, consoling her teenage daughter, Emma, who is traumatized by what happened. Snake is pacing around the room, awaiting further instructions from law enforcement, his superior, etc. We watch as he sits at the table with his wife and stepdaughter, and a second later, a police officer opens the door for the principal to walk in. Snake is already on the defense after Daniel addresses him by his first name, "Archie?" When the principal calls a teacher by his first name, you know it's serious business.

"No, I am busy here if you haven't noticed." Snake retorts. Raditch apologizes but goes on to ask him if he could get into Rick's email and look for any possible warning signs that could have stopped what he did, a request forwarded by him from law enforcement. This visibly upsets Snake, and he makes a snarky remark about how "the groundbreaking 20/20 hindsight policy" only comes into play after it's too late. He then concedes and stands from his chair to do what he was asked to do, but Daniel refuses to let Snake's comment slide. Biting his bottom lip, he follows Archie to remind him how he has "seven-hundred students and a teaching staff that [he's] responsible for everyday." He then tells Snake not to "get on [his] case because one kid overreacted to some...spilled paint." Snake yells back at him that Raditch personally spoke to Rick twice in the past two days, asking him if he listened to the kid. Raditch insists that he did, but Snake doesn't believe him, doubting that he remembered a word that Rick said to him. Snake, raising his voice, then goes on to say "This tragedy, Dan it could have been prevented if YOU hadn't--" but Spike cuts him off before he can finish. Of all of the conversations that get interrupted, this one felt like the biggest crime of them all. Come on, Emma's mom, let them hash this one out!

Let's address what Snake said to Raditch. According to him, Rick came to the principal twice in the past two days. That's on average once a day, which are pretty frequent trips to the principal's office to make as a student. I mention in part 3a how it can be difficult for kids to come forward and open up about being victims of bullying. For Rick to have spoken to the principal on average once a day meant that he was in some serious trouble and was looking for outside help. Compare that to what Raditch said to Rick in 4x07: "Richard, I've told you time and time again. It takes two to tango." In this one instance where Rick seeks out help, and Snake's reference of how the principal spoke to him twice in the past couple of days, the audience can infer that Rick has visited Mr. Raditch way more than twice, as "time and time again" implies Rick spoke to Raditch at least two other times before we finally see him make his third trip at least. For the principal of the school to dismiss Rick three times at minimum is appalling. After this scene, the audience can safely conclude that the school staff was neglectful when it came to handling Rick's situation, especially the head of the school.

Let's now explore the second question: could Raditch have prevented Rick from returning in the first place? This one is a tougher question to answer, as this one will call for us to explore Rick's history in detail. In my last installment, I mention a deleted scene in which we see Marco and Alex, student council's president and vice president respectfully, confront Mr. Raditch about allowing Rick to continue his education at Degrassi. Alex insists that "he's a danger...especially to girls", and she's not wrong here. Raditch replies, "...until a student is actually charged [for any crime], he or she will continue to study at my school. Like it or not." Before this exchange, Marco reminds Raditch that Rick put Terri in a coma, to which the principal replies, "To my knowledge, no student has been charged with putting another student in a coma." It's unfortunate that this scene gets cut from the series because, judging by the characters' outfits and the dialogue, this was originally meant to be in the episode "Mercy Street" (4x04). We learn a couple of key details here. For one, we learn that Terri transferred to a private school presumably to get away from Rick. We furthermore can confirm that Rick and his family were never charged for the coma incident that he caused. That whole ordeal is still a mystery to the fan base. After seeing how shocked and angry Terri's dad was in the season three's "Don't Dream it's Over", it's easy to assume that he would take action immediately against the Murrays, yet filing a lawsuit isn't cheap. I don't know all of the odds and ends of Canadian law, but maybe it was hard to make a solid case against Rick due to lack of evidence, though I can't understand why. If Terri had died from hitting her head against that cinder block, officials would surely be forced to open an investigation surrounding the details of her death. Then again, her body would belong to the coroner's office, and they would be able to pick up traces of evidence that Rick was responsible for her condition by conducting an autopsy on her body. Of course, I'm speaking on hypotheticals at this point, which will do us no good here. Terri lived from the incident, so what little evidence that pointed to Rick would have disappeared. There were also no witnesses to Terri's fall except for Rick himself; remember Paige and Spinner showed up after the fact and found Terri already lying on the ground unconscious. At the end of the day, Degrassi focuses on teen drama: it's not a police show, a hospital or a courtroom drama as YouTuber "You'veGotKat" points out in her video essay. The show's focus is on the teens and how they deal with the issues around them. Rick getting in trouble with the law was just another barrier to keep the writers from exploring the shooting plotline. After the actor, Ephraim Ellis, was featured in three episodes in season three, the writers decided that he had the chops to pull off such a serious storyline about a troubled teen resorting to gun violence, so they wrote his character back into season four, who originally appeared to have been "run out of town on a rail" after he hurt Terri, as Ellis would state in multiple interviews and podcasts.

So we looked into how Rick Murray escaped the law, thus giving him the ability to return to Degrassi, but let's get down to the question: could Raditch have stopped him from returning? As unfortunate as this may be, the principal had no jurisdiction to keep Rick Murray away. It's true that the principal was receptive to the students' animosity towards him and was aware of the fact that Rick put Terri in a coma, but this is only based on the words of a student. For all he knew, this could have been a vicious rumor or a misunderstanding on the matter, and, as he states in the deleted scene, since Rick wasn't charged with anything, he had no criminal record. Marco and Alex probably wouldn't have had to talk to Raditch if Rick had gotten into legal trouble, but unfortunately, he didn't. In order to understand why this is the case, we will have to look back at season three during the multiple instances when Rick inflicted abuse onto Terri. There's plenty to go over, so I will save that for the next chapter. Watch out for 3c!