Back in the mid-1800s, school teachers — especially male teachers — ruled their classrooms with an iron hand, or in one case, with a leather whip. Charles Wing, who attended a three-room school on Baraboo’s First Street in the 1850s, spoke of his experience as a young student there at a 1908 Old Settlers meeting.
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