Voters less reluctant to break up less successful football teams

Memo to the Grossmont Union High School District: if you want to keep Alpine, make sure Granite Hills has a successful football team.

That is a possible lesson learned from the passage of Proposition BB, which turned the Bonsall school district from a K-8 elementary school district into a unified K-12 district while removing that area from the Fallbrook Union High School District. The success of Bonsall unification in the 2012 election in contrast with efforts in the late 1990s which stagnated may be due to a greater willingness to break up a less successful Fallbrook High School football team...