That's not a huge controversy. A huge controversy is when you have people actually arguing about it. This looks like a few places experimenting. > Profiloberst

That's not a huge controversy. A huge controversy is when you have people actually arguing about it. This looks like a few places experimenting. > Profiloberstufe This is a cost-saving measure. > Regionale Schule This doesn't include Gymnasium. > Gesamtschule This comes close, but effectively is just a school that combines all three tracks into one, with different students leaving at different grades. Notably it also has a reduced quality of education. > some states abolishing the old system "Abolishing"? Really? Which Bundesland has verboten solitary Gymnasiums? I couldn't see it in the article about Gesamtschule and google also didn't give me anything.