30 July | 18:06  |  margaret

i hate plano as much as any teenager who lives there, but i feel compelled to offer another side to this story. according to a friend of mine who graduated this year from PESH and had some of the same teachers as armstrong, he missed a lot of school in high school to train and compete in cycling events, and when he came back he expected to be allowed to graduate. the school couldn't let him do that, obviously; he had missed too much school to get credit for some classes. if i remember correctly, he later found a private school that would let him graduate. i suppose he's still bitter. poor lance- the big mean school didn't reward him with a diploma when he blew off school to focus on his cycling career. i only know the story secondhand, but it still seems kind of silly for him to expect a school to let him "take time off" to train, get mad when they won't, take the time off anyway, expect to graduate when he comes back, and then whine about it 15 years later.

03 August | 13:11  |  josh

Good points all. You've got the Lance-at-PESH story essentially right -- more details at the link in this post. He ended up graduating from Bending Oaks High School.

That said, his point is that if he was one of the rich country-club kids, PESH would have been more accomodating. No way to confirm or deny that, I suppose.