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A school at Georgetown University is providing students stressed out by the election with hot cocoa, milk and cookies, and Legos to play with. Lots and lots of Legos.

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Georgetown, a once prestigious university, has been relegated to consoling fragile students as if they were pre-schoolers. We get toddlers, but do we need these types of coping mechanisms at the age of 19, 20, or 21? 

You’ve got more significant issues than the election if this is how you handle adversity.

An email sent to students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy was obtained by Francesca Block at The Free Press.

The school’s mission contends they are “responding to the call to take on” and “tackle the complex issues of today.”

And with the election and current political climate of the nation currently falling in the category of “complex,” how are they responding to help students “tackle” it?

Milk and cookies. No, seriously.

An email sent out by Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, calls on students to make use of the post-election “Self-Care Suite.” 

The suite is operating under an agenda today that would have 5-year-olds as wide-eyed as seeing Santa on Christmas Eve. That schedule, according to the outlet, is as follows.

10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises

2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies

4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring

5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation

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The fact they gave Legos two separate hours, I mean, much respect. Legos are cool. At home. Playing with them with your children.

Probably not appropriate for a public policy leadership program at Georgetown University, where the average tuition exceeds $62,000 per academic year.

If these students need two hours of toys and coloring to cope with the stress of Election Day, what are they going to need to get through the days ahead? Especially if their chosen candidate does not win.

These are our future policymakers? How are they planning to deal with foreign diplomats who will rake them over the coals and probably won’t need nap time afterward due to the stress?

The funny part is that these students get super-mad when they’re called snowflakes, then retreat to “hot cocoa and self-care” just to make it through the day.

Georgetown’s Lego therapy is reminiscent of a private school in New York City where officials recently opted to “create space” for kids “emotionally distressed” by the election. They are even allowed to skip school the following day if they are too stressed out.

The move prompted comedian Jerry Seinfeld, whose son formerly attended the elite school, to blast them for encouraging kids “to buckle.”

And that’s what Georgetown is doing for its students. The difference being that the school in NYC caters to all age ranges, while GU presumably is helping adults cope.

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Georgetown once allowed Hillary Clinton to cope with election loss as well, though it didn’t involve milk and cookies (that we know of). The school hosted her for an event two years after her 2016 defeat. Rather than playing with Legos, her self-care involved ranting about “sexism” and “misogyny.”

“Any of you who’ve read my book about ‘what happened’ know that I think misogyny and sexism was part of that campaign—it was one of the contributing factors,” Clinton said. “Some of it was old-fashioned sexism and the refusal to accept the equality of women, and certainly the equality of women’s leadership.”

Come to think of it, if Hillary is the gold standard for public policy and diplomacy on the left, then these Georgetown students probably should be dealing with their emotions by playing with toys. Perhaps if Clinton had done the same, she wouldn’t have spent years blaming everybody else for losing.