A monkey on the Internet managed to type:

A sport pilot license with just a state issued drivers
license for the medical and just 20 hours of instruction, including 5
solo.... Gimme a break! I don't care if they are restricted to daytime
hours, no
x-countrys, etc. They can't be safe, esp in airports that have busy
patterns.

And you know this based on what? All your time in the air instructing?
Trolling on r.a.p. doesn't make you an expert. The minimums for the PPL
are 40hrs, but only a handful of people complete it in that time; the
20hr requirement for the SPL is also a minimum. Most will probably take
longer to get it done. It's the instructor's discretion when the
student is ready for the checkride.