San Diego Unified officials are now considering walking back their plan to close to middle school grades at some of their K-8 schools south of Interstate 8.

Last week, our Jakob McWhinney broke the news that officials planned to shutter the middle school portions of four K-8 schools. After the news, parents at Bethune K-8, one of the targeted schools, organized, went on local TV, wrote letters and generally raised an understandable ruckus.

Now, school officials are considering keeping the middle school grades at Bethune open. They claim part of the reason they want to shut down the middle school grades is because of poor performance at the targeted schools. Now, in retrospect, they are saying Bethune’s performance issues haven’t been as bad as the other schools.

Bethune initially wasn’t

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