The Cumberland County Board of Education decided Thursday night against a system wide dress code that would have regulated leggings being worn to school.

The code would have required girls’ skirts and dresses to be no shorter than 4 inches above the knee to cover the leggings.

The district recently decided to relax its dress code.

But officials say since then, more students started wearing sagging pants and tight leggings to school.

The current dress code only requires a top to cover a student’s buttocks.

The proposed change was met with opposition from some students and parents, but the superintendent said it was only about keeping kids focused on learning.

“It was drawing attention away from classroom,” said Cumberland County Superintendent Donald Andrews.