Here’s something I’ll never understand – why people would pay good money for a degree that they know is a sham! Is that all an education is worth – the price of the paper the degree is printed on?

Amidst all the diploma mills that take people for a ride and offer fake degrees, there are some sites that boldly proclaim that their degrees are “bogus” and that for $60, (well, a cent less to be exact), you can have the degree of your choice printed and framed on the wall behind your desk.

Being fooled into earning a degree that is worthless is one thing, knowing that you are “buying” a degree is entirely another. While the first amounts to being taken for a ride, the second shows that the “degree holder” is the one taking prospective employers, friends and family for a ride.

The values and benefits of online education are being corroded by the existence of such sites, and the more they are patronized, the less significance online learning will hold.