Central and Eastern European countries tried to change their educational system in accord with western standards, the western system was moving towards deeper marketisation. A neo-liberal set of values started to influence simultaneously western as well as eastern part of Europe. ‘Homo Sovieticus’ changed into ‘homo economicus’ (Devine & Irwin, 2005), and a ‘homo democraticus’ seems to be no ideal anymore. These processes are strongly visible in schools, where teachers in the Czech Republic talk about dramatic change of value system of parents and children (Moree, 2013). How does this process started in perspective of children and young people? And what role did the school play in this shift? In the research we used a set of qualitative methods: action research (theatre of the oppressed), focus groups with students and narrative research among students, born around 1989 – a year of political changes in the Czech Republic. After first four sessions students made a choice for topic “be perfect pressure”. They created two theatre pieces. The whole group (approximately 50 people) worked by forum theatre method to search possible alternative strategies to reconcile with the topic. The whole process was observed. Biographical interviews with participating students were conducted after finishing the group process.