Ugg boots banned at school after students caught hiding cell phones in the fuzzy footwear

Students at a Pennsylvania school have been told to leave their ugg boots at home after they caught one too many students hiding cell phones in them.
Administrators at Pottsdam Middle School made the controversial decision because students were secretly using their cell phones during class to text and post messages on Facebook.
The school’s strict policy on cell phones prohibits use during class hours.

Banned: A school ban on Ugg boots has upset parents and students alike
In response, the principal told students they could no longer wear 'outdoor, open top boots'.

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Parents weren’t happy about the school telling them what footwear their children could and not not wear.

Texting: The boots were banned to crack down on cellphone use in school (picture posed by model)
'When the schools started paying to raise and clothe my children then maybe... maybe they can have a say in dictating my child’s wardrobe,' Julie Lyn Miller-Gallisdorfer posted on the Mercury’s Facebook page.
'Totally ridiculous.'
Other parents were annoyed that only girls seemed to be targeted.
'Pockets, bras, socks, what’s next?' another parent wrote.
'I think this is absurd!'
But most parents were incredulous that the school thought that banning boots would solve the problem of sneaking cell phones.
'Just take them (cell phones) when they have them in class, give them a detention and be done with it,' posted Jeni Alexander.
'Making up 100 silly rules to deal with something that is inevitable is like swimming upstream.'
A spokesperson for the school district confirmed that the trendy boots were the prime offenders.
Students can still wear their winter boots to school but they must change out of them into sneakers or another shoes that lace at the ankle and cannot conceal a cell phone before classes begin