"The Tipping Point" Controversy
On November 11, 2009, a Kinkaid parent, Hugh "Skip" McGee III, sent an irate letter (entitled "The Tipping Point") to the school's board of directors. In the letter, McGee, Head of the Global Investment Banking Division at Barclays Capital and one of Wall Street's highest paid bankers, attacked the school's administration for altering a previously planned student pep rally. McGee went on to criticize one of the teachers whom he believed to be behind the changes; he also complained that the history teacher had reduced his 11th grade son, John Ed, to tears with a comment about investment banking. The controversy was covered in the March 2011 edition of Texas Monthly. Kinkaid alumnus and former interim-term teacher Robert L. Bradley Jr. also published an essay on the controversy.
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