This is not the end-all be-all, but let’s trace back to when studying Filipino was at its peak for most of us: high school.
Read more: 6 Filipino literature that deserve your undivided attention As bad luck and poor decision-making would have it, the future generations got robbed of the chance. What Tanggol Wika (Alyansa ng Mga Tagapagtanggol ng Wika Filipino) said last year was true-removing it from the college curriculum is like cultural genocide. The Supreme Court might disagree, but the Filipino subject is one of the last lungs of our national identity.