[silverleaf]

I got mine and parents used it for school registration decades before obama was born

[deport]

I don’t remember ever having to use mine for school purposes but may well have.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/ssnchron.html
1972 Social Security Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-603):

•Required SSA to issue SSNs to all legally admitted aliens at entry and of anyone receiving or applying for any benefit paid for by Federal funds;
•Required SSA to obtain evidence to establish age, citizenship, or alien status and identity.
•Authorized SSA to enumerate children at the time they first entered school.

[9YearLurker]

I’m close to Obama’s age, and most of my cohorts didn’t have SS#’s until they started working.