Czech President Miloš Zeman has criticized the inclusion of disabled children in mainstream schools, arguing that it harms both disabled and non-disabled children. "Children are much happier when they are placed into a community of equals," President Zeman said. "Combining children with handicaps with healthy children is a disaster for both groups." Both groups of children - disabled and non-disabled - are, in the president's opinion, unhappy when they are forced to sit next to each other.