No problem, I read it anyway.
The most common cut off date in my experience of looking at them in a number of different states is Sept. 1. A child must be 6 by that date for first grade or 5 by that date for kindergarten.
As far as skipping a grade because the child is ahead of the pack or may have just missed the cut-off date by days, what I have found to be the most common approach is the school system will advance the child in the 3rd or 4th grade. They like to see some history, both academic and emotional before making the decision.
Little Barry, where ever he was, did his school time without any grade skipping for sure. There weren’t any teleprompters he could rely on back then to tell him what to think and say.
Yep - no teleprompters. But I’d not be surprised to learn he organized the 1st graders into a union, collected dues, and made the smart ones take the tests for him. Hell’s bells - he was probably doing that at Haahvaad.