As part of a regular survey conducted by the Public Opinion Research Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the second half of August 2025, we asked selected citizens for their opinions on inclusive education. We surveyed Czech citizens' opinions on the joint education of children with different attributes in regular classrooms, and we also asked how people feel about the creation of different types of schools, from multi-year grammar schools to elementary schools with extended teaching, practical schools for children with mild mental disabilities, and special schools for children with moderate and severe mental disabilities. The third question in this report presents attitudes toward a total of nine measures relating to various areas of Czech education.
The measure receiving the most support relates to preschool education, with 84% of citizens supporting compulsory attendance in the final year of preschool, and almost three-quarters (72%) of the Czech public in favor of a guaranteed place in kindergarten for children over two years of age. In third place, with a comparable share of approximately two-thirds of affirmative responses, are uniform entrance exams for secondary school programs (66%) and free education for children from the age of two (64%).
The Czech public most often expresses disagreement with children with some type of health disability being educated in regular classes. Almost four-fifths (72%) of citizens disagree with the inclusion of children with mental disabilities, half (42%) disagree with the inclusion of children with visual or hearing impairments, and more than one-fifth (21%) of Czech society is against the education of children with physical disabilities in regular classes.
The least popular measure is the proposed extension of compulsory schooling to 10 years (i.e., the abolition of the ninth grade in elementary school and the introduction of compulsory two-year secondary school education). Less than a third (31%) would support it, while 59% of the public is against it.
All types of schools surveyed would be accepted positively by a majority of the Czech public, with the highest support for special schools for children with moderate and severe mental disabilities (87% agree), followed by elementary schools with extended teaching (87% with a smaller proportion of decisive agreements).
Due to a change in the CVVM survey methodology, the results of the present survey are not directly comparable to the results of previous surveys. More information about the new methodology can be found in this press release.
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- Download the full press release here: or251001.pdf
- All reports from this survey: PNS_2508
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