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It's hard to say to be honest.
When talking about anything with school Germans have a vast vocabulary with specific words for every single type of work done.

For example I asked my son nearly daily if they had "homework" (Hausaufgaben, literally house chores) and he'd say "no".
What I didn't know is they had a learning plan (Lernplan) that had to be done by the end of the week and while they were given time to do it at school the expectation was it got done no matter where or how.

Sooo.... I had to learn to ask "Did you finish your learning plan?"

As an ex-teacher i think I am allowed an opinion on how it is no wonder to me that kids finish secondary school and have no clue what they want to do. One class I am told never has more than 50% of the kids participating in the online portions of school. They are so drilled in the routine and studying just for the exams that without that structure they can't function.

It's nearly like training a dog to jump over a log and when it comes to a small creek that is not wider than any log they have jumped over they simply can't fathom jumping over because it isn't a log...

Hard to change something that has been in place for nearly 200 years...