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Pollock’s difficulty with social communication during adolescence was displayed early, for example after he enrolled at Riverside High School in 1927. Letters from his father expressed concern about his son’s inability to get along in school. In March 1928 Jackson stopped attending Riverside, where he was apparently expelled for fighting.

Jackson, while still a teenager, moved with his mother and brothers Charles, Jay, and Sanford to Los Angeles in 1929. His father remained in Riverside and his brother Frank moved to New York.

The rebellious teenager was expelled twice from yet another school, Manual Arts High School. One of these times it was not for physical fighting, but for participating in a student protest against school policies. He would later also be let go from his school’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps after an altercation with an ROTC officer.

The overall effect of these frequent moves possibly contributed to the future artist’s life-long sense of unrest, instability, and difficulties in social groups. On the other hand, he might also have learned something about adaptability.