UGG boots banned in school. Education crisis solved!

I'm against the ban. I'm interested in finding why women love this boots so much? Other than the fact that they are comfortable. They are not waterproof and damn are they ugly!

When...and I mean WHEN my children are old enough to have the responsability of a cell phone, I'll be sure to monitor the activity and if its used during school hours, away it will go. Parenting. Go figure.

well we could neverrrrr wear our ''boots'' in school,,if you didn't have shoes,,then you wore just your socks,,,and anyone who has walked around all day with 'wet' socks on ,,knows it just not nice,lol,,,,besides wearing woolen/fur lined boots all day inside is not good for you anyway, let them breathe, or when you go out , your feet will freeze from the moister ,,of course i do live in canada, where you don't screw with the cold.

Wow, no wonder our kids aren't learning anything! Kids aren't following stated policies, they think it's funny to be sneaky anyway and brag about how they'll just find another way, then just to top things off - the parents complain about how unfair it is! Incredible! No wonder we have an entire generation of self-indulgent, self-righteous, over-indulged, irresponsible brats with a colossal sense of entitlement. Take responsibility for yourselves and your kids, and the schools won't have to dictate policy (or common sense).

Why don't they just buy a cell phone jammer and turn it on inside the school. DUH ????
Technology does exist !

This is absolutely ridiculous. As a female high school student, I can tell you that girls get pretty creative when it comes to breaking the rules---bras, backpacks and pockets are all equally discreet hiding spots to sneak a phone in. Instead of banning the boots, the school should get to the root of the problem and make harsher consequences for having phones, not the mechanism of transporting them.

You people are ignoring the real issue here, although you seem to understand it! The real problem is the kids bringing phones to class! This ban will not stop that at all! Deal with the real issue! Start handing out punishments for kids bringing these phones to class, not banning a type of boot which is only going to affect girls, and still leave a million other ways to bring that phone into the class! No wonder the education system is failing, when these are the ideas of those running the school. What a joke!

If you have ever taught in a classroom while putting up with cell phones it may give you a different opinion. It is a constant struggle and it has a major affect on the quality of learning. If students listened to the rules, these sanctions would not be required.

Cell phone jammers.

Pure and simple, cell phones are too distracting in class and an opportunity to cheat. If a parent wants to get hold of their kid they can call the office, jammers are the only sure-fire solution but so many people are against them for so many reasons it won't happen but in my opinion they should install them and charge the parents.

Cell phones and kids don't mix.

I wonder why people are whining over this ban, if the parents closely monitored the kids with cell phones, this would never have been an issue. Would you rather the kids be suspended for bringing cell phones to school? Imagine the volume of distractions their teachers have to go through and how much this impacts the overall learning process and maybe most of us would appreciate that as long as the ban is geared towards them being better students, its welcome. Didnt we all do much better without the cell phone distractions by the way?

How about parents paying more attention to what their kids are bringing to school and wearing to school. What 11 year old needs a friggin Iphone for anyway? Parents need to step up so that teachers can stop doing the parents job and focus on teaching these hell cats !

"open top boots" - what the hell does that mean?? aren't all boots open on the top? how else would you get your foot into them?

It took some time, but I've reached the stage when I see people on phones I am now 100 per cent sure distraction is a meaningless way to waste your life. You don't look cool and connected to me.

One: UGGs are one of the cruelest crimes against fashion.
Two: No matter what you do, teens are still going to use their cell phones in class. It's sad that when I'm in class, a third of the time that could be spent on the actual lesson is spent with teachers constantly telling my classmates to turn their phones off and/or taking them away.
That being said, schools can continue banning articles of clothing - it won't solve anything (the only thing it will solve is hideous fashion choices, but that's another matter *ahem* yoga pants...). If kids want to use their cell phones in class, they will. There's nothing that can be done.
Coming from a teen, I find this extremely frustrating because for some crazy reason, I actually want to learn. I know it sounds incredulous, but I have no interest in texting my friend from across the room. Not only do the people who are texting loose out on their education, but so does everyone else in the damn class!
I honestly cannot wait until all the in-class texters finally wake up and realize that while they weren't paying attention during class, everyone else graduated and got a job.

Really, these disrespectful students need to get out of the classes I'm in so I can actually learn in peace. Just go sit in the hallway and text the whole day for all I care.

Because they can't just put their phones in their pockets? or do these students get patted down before entering class..

its simple give them a fine if caught with there phones .

Bring in the school uniforms...parents can't complain about the expense it will cost them as they'll certainly cut down on clothing costs, and schools and students can focus on academics again instead of fashion. Plus it alleviates distinguishing different classes of students (rich versus poor, as no one will get to wear their $200 name brand jeans anymore while another student wears $20 Walmart jeans). Problem solved.

Bloody ridicolous. There were no cell phones in my day or clothing restrictions. Don't kids write notes or shoot spitballs anymore?

bad new for parents who just foolishly spent $150 on a pair of boots for their kid as a Christmas gift

i can't imagine a scenario in which my school made a rule to reinforce an already existent rule, and my parents protested either of them. these schools need to adopt a 2-strike policy about cellphones. a single warning, and you're expelled the second time. then see how quick the parents would be to tell their kids to put away the cellphones.