As Americans comes to terms with the election results, students seem to need extra time and care to cope with Donald Trump’s victory. Colleges across the US have canceled classes and exams, offered disaster counseling and dog and coloring book therapies.

Since Wednesday, schools have been trying to help students recover from election day, which for some ended in a shocking outcome.

Classes were canceled or postponed the morning after the elections at some colleges due to understanding that students had stayed up late to wait for the results. Some professors even decided that holding exams would be counterproductive because students complained about “serious stress.”

One University of Michigan psychology professor postponed an exam until November 16.

“However one feels about the results of this important election, it’s clear that it (and the period leading up to it) is/has been very distracting and upsetting to many students,” professor John Snodgrass wrote in an email, cited by the College Fix. “I’ve been receiving many emails in recent hours from students requesting to delay the exam due to associated serious stress.”

At Columbia University in New York, about a dozen midterm exams were postponed, according to the university’s newspaper.

“Instead of studying for my exam, I was glued to the election update,” one student said. “It's not fair to have a test the following day when something so monumental is taking place, especially when this event is threatening so many groups of people in our country.”

Student councils and petitions also requested class cancellations.

“Students looked a bit shaken, not really focused on what we were doing in class,” political science professor Justin Phillips told Columbia Spectator. “People looked tired; it looked like some people had probably been crying. I think it was very palpable in the room.”

At Yale College, exams have also been made optional with one professor reportedly saying that he received heartfelt notes from students, including some “who fear, rightly or wrongly, for their own families.”

Even Harvard followed suit. Some professors postponed assignments or altered lesson plans to “ease students' schedules.”

Cornell University students took a different approach and held a “cry-in,” which the school’s staff supplied with tissues and hot chocolate.

One student at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond took matters into his hands and spent eight hours offering free hugs to everyone on Election Night.

Alejandro Andrade held a hand-written banner that read: “In light of the hate and/or mistrust… FREE HUGS,” according to the Good News Network.

Tufts University offered to heal the shock with arts and crafts, while University of Michigan students were welcome to distract themselves from bad news by playing with Play-Doh and coloring in coloring books.

The University of Kansas turned to four-legged “psychologists” and offered students puppy therapy.

In New York, elite private schools also decided to help students handle Trump’s victory by offering “emergency counseling”, a measure which is usually used at times of catastrophes and disastrous events.

“Our students brought a great deal of emotion, anxiety and strong feelings into the building with them this morning that we made every effort to acknowledge and respect,” Principal Hamilton Clark of the Avenues: The World School wrote in a letter to parents, according to the New York Post.

At Hofstra University, which hosted the first presidential debate this year, students, especially those upset with the results, were invited to discuss elections at a session called “A Way Forward: A Discussion on the 2016 Presidential Election.”

What ever happened to Xanax and booze?

The offsetting effects of ingesting so many classes of mind altering drugs has resulted in no net benefit.

What ever happened to Xanax and booze?

What ever happened to Xanax and booze?

They bent to the will of the crazy parents. This social emotional learning stuff is crap. They can't handle conflict because you are not allowed to have conflict any more. People that act like assbags are told that's okay to be who you are and people have to accept you for that. They talk to the kids that are doing nothing wrong into going the extra mile of accepting, allowing, caring for others so others feelings are not hurt at any cost. Feelings, no matter how unreasonable, are more important than what is right, fair, or just. Kids are allowed to have excuses for their behavior and face almost no consequences in school.

Speak for yourself.

That is insane.

What ever happened to Xanax and booze?

Fucking soccer-ification of America. Fucking AYSO.

My stepson is in junior high right now and my wife and I are frustrated about the way the kids are handled and coddled. Didn't hand in your assignment? Don't
fret, just get it to us as soon as you can for no lost credit. Oh, you didn't do well on your latest quiz/test. Not to worry, come on in and retake it when it
is convenient for you and we'll get that grade bumped right back up. We can't believe this is the way it works and don't agree with it at all. Yes, I get
the kids are only 12-13 years old but the idea of always getting a second chance for EVERYTHING is annoying and unrealistic. We are hoping that the
high school gets a bit tougher next year.

No safe space in T-Bone's house.

I don't have to type it out. I found the link.

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Here's all the lessons.

http://eagles5th6th.weebly.com/social-a ... ccess.html

They can't manage conflict an we are teaching them not to.

My stepson is in junior high right now and my wife and I are frustrated about the way the kids are handled and coddled. Didn't hand in your assignment? Don't
fret, just get it to us as soon as you can for no lost credit. Oh, you didn't do well on your latest quiz/test. Not to worry, come on in and retake it when it
is convenient for you and we'll get that grade bumped right back up. We can't believe this is the way it works and don't agree with it at all. Yes, I get
the kids are only 12-13 years old but the idea of always getting a second chance for EVERYTHING is annoying and unrealistic. We are hoping that the
high school gets a bit tougher next year.

All fine and well, if kids have a strong understanding of basic math and reading among other core subjects. When our high school students aren't reading at an 8th grade level, well then those soft skills won't get them very far.

Currently living through the back end of this, where the HS takes a "F you, we aren't holding your hand" attitude. The problem is the bad grades resulting from behavior learned/ratified/enabled via the coddling at middle school actually has a real impact on the old GPA and college prospects. Seems to impact more boys than girls. Figure that.

What the ever loving fuck?

All fine and well, if kids have a strong understanding of basic math and reading among other core subjects. When our high school students aren't reading at an 8th grade level, well then those soft skills won't get them very far.

We are suppose to bring snacks for these classes too. They have em once every few weeks in the gym and have a little breakfast so it's a happy positive experience.I shit you not.

But of course the snacks must be nut free, gluten free, sugar free, no msg, no sodium, etc, and they all have to have little smiley faces and shit on them, don't they?

Yes. The good moms do pinteresty stuff to their snacks. Then they have fast food 3x a week because Johnny has to go to travel (sport) practice.

This is scary.

Maybe home schooling isn't as crazy as I thought it was.

Fucking pintrest. Did they ever consider that little Johnny's stomach is all fucked up because eating nothing but chicken nuggets is just, you know, bad for you?