"DEGREE", A COMIC MOMENT

So I was shopping yesterday, and then this grandma was with a little boy, and the boy is naughty, he kept on running around, touching things,
and the old lady kept calling out, "Degree!! stop running around! Degree! Don't touch that! Degree come back here...Degree, Degree, Degree..."
I couldn't help but wonder, Why was she calling the little boy Degree? And I asked her.
She was like, "well...4 years ago, I sent my daughter 2 University and told her 2 come back with a Degree, and this (pointing at the kid) is what she came back home with...."