My son (who turns 8 on Saturday!!) got this sheet from his school to remind me to send tennis shoes with him to school.

I thought it was a bit funny, because the shoes I got him were from the tennis shoe section at the store, and they look very similar to the shoes in the picture on the paper the school sent home. Am I crazy?

You can't tell from the picture that it's not made out of "boot" material. It's a tennis shoe material(or what we call tennis shoes...even though it's unlikely you'd play tennis in them) and it was purchased in the tennis shoe section...not the boot section. Plus...when he goes outside on snowy days, they won't let him use these on the snow...because they're not boots. So.....what the heck are these?

Gym shoes er no?