Educational Puppy Mills: How We Built a Degree Machine That Produces Unqualified Graduates
By prioritizing graduation metrics, tuition dollars, and customer satisfaction over real academic rigor, our system has turned education into a glorified puppy mill—churning out high school graduates who lack basic literacy, college grads armed with inflated GPAs but zero practical skills, and PhDs over-credentialed for academia yet hopelessly underprepared for the workforce. Until we stop confusing a paid pedigree with actual competence and restore objective standards, we will keep burdening students with crushing debt for pieces of paper that fail them the moment they hit the real world.
