There are specific areas of study where SHS may choose that looks like college courses. Under the senior high school track there are four disciplines for you to choose, namely, the Academic Track, Technical – Vocational – Livelihood Track, Sports Track and lastly Arts and Design Track. These are tracks that will give you and will help you to be competitive and to have an advanced skills that required in college or in tech – voc education, in entrepreneurship, and most important is in life.

Let’s start in ACADEMIC TRACK

Academic Track – are areas of research interest that students choose to help guide them in selecting a course of study and a research area.

There are four strands inside the Academic strand. They are the Accountancy, Business and Management or (ABM), Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Humanities and Social Sciences ( HUMMS) and the last one is General Academic (GAS). STEM strand is an educational program developed to prepare primary and secondary students for college and graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics . It also helps you to pursue college courses like : Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Psychology and Statics. While in ABM Strand , ABM focuses on the basic concepts of financial management, business management, corporate operations, and all things that are accounted for. ABM can also lead you to careers on management and accounting which could be sales manager, human resources, marketing director, project officer, bookkeeper, accounting clerk, internal auditor, and a lot more. In HUMMS Strand it is designed for those who you are ready to take on the world and talk to a lot of people. This is for those who wants to take up journalism, communication arts, liberal arts, education, and other social science-related courses in college. You can also pursue college courses like: teacher, a psychologist, a lawyer, a writer, a social worker, or a reporter. In GAS Strand this is for students who are not yet sure or still undecided about track to choose. But in GAS you may choose different academic tracks and subjects like Humanities, Social Sciences, Applied Economics, Organization and Management and also Disaster Preparedness.

Senior High School students, pertaining to one’s hardships and intellectual capability. However, each strand caters variety of topics suited to a specific profession relevant to the society and is in accordance of their own specialization. For instance, STEM focuses on Science and Mathematics, HUMSS on Humanities and Social Sciences, ABM is more on Business Management, TVL is more vocational, while GAS refers to general academic strand meaning, sudents from this strand have to be a jack of all aces since it molds the students based on the subjects intensified by the other strands.

Academic strands are usually referred to as strands that requires brain, most especially STEM since Science and Math is referred to be subjects that quench every brain cells of students. Albeit, the track chosen by a student does not define one,s intellectual capability and intelligence. Every student vary, from their interest to their field of expertise, and that’s the purpose of strands- to mold students in accordance to their skills, to enhance their talents, and to shape their well-being to prepare them to the world ahead.

All strands are unique from each other, some are academic track such as STEM,HUMSS,ABM and GAS. Some are non academic tracks such as Arts and design track, Sports track, and TVL.All of those strands plays an important part in the school and even in the community, but why is it that there is this thing called strand discrimination the most affected strand are those non academic track specifically TVL and even the GAS. To prevent this situation, the students must be disciplined if ever they are caught dragging other strand to call the attention of all students to stop degrading strands.

Before, it was just a small thing but now it becomes a problem. Why is it there are gaps between the students nowadays? Is it because of the strand they’ve chosen? Strands like STEM, HUMMS, ABM, GAS and TVL. There are scenarios where, every time they say STEM the thing that comes directly in student’s mind is, students in that strand are intelligent and wise. In ABM, they excel in math, some of them says HUMMS strand is easy while in GAS, students who are not yet sure about the course they are going to pursue in college and lastly TVL, they say students who are good in cleaning, cooking and who knows how to do household chores. We can’t prevent people in giving negative feedback about the other strand. They continuously discriminating other strands in which its not right thing to do. We must give awareness to everyone to end this strand discrimination.A group of students in Iligan City, Philippines raise an advocacy in strand discrimination and that advocacy is Motivated Individuals Against Strand Discrimination and Unity Bearer . The purpose of this advocacy is to eradicate strand discrimination among students which helps the students to acknowledge the hardships of every strand experienced by the students. This will help to provide unity among students despite of the varying chosen track. The vision of this advocacy is to put an end to strand discrimination and motivated senior high school students to excel in their own strand. Also it aims to motivate each student to appreciate every strand as one differs from the other. This will help students to acknowledge the individualistic hardships of students belonging in different strands. So, END STRAND DISCRIMINATION NOW!