According to recent studies.

On May 15, year 2013, former President Benigno Aquino IIII

approved the Republic Act (RA) 10533 entitled “An Act Enhancing the Philippine Basic
Education System by Strengthening Its Curriculum and Increasing the Number of Years for
Basic Education, Appropriating Funds Therefore and for Other Purposes” or known as the
“Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013”.

However, there is still a problem they also hear some piece of discouragement and are often
being discriminated because of the strand that they took. There’s a “HUMSS Lang” label that
some people often use to discriminate them. Because for some, Humanities and Social Science
courses is way easier than Science courses, while they hail all the people who are into Science
courses because they are labeled as “geniuses”. This has to stop. Every track, strand, and
course has its own difficulties.

In line with this, This research is of great importance because conducted to find out the impacts
of Strand Discrimination to the Humanities and Social Science students with the hope of being
an instrument to hear their voices out and to eventually seek professional help and guidance to
solve this problem.