Some teachers in Natuashish, an isolated community on the coast of Labrador, say they're worried about their safety.
They say some students at the Mushuau Innu Natuashish School have threatened to harm teachers.
"It is really out of control...[There are] hundreds of examples of where students swear at teachers, push teachers or threaten them. One teacher was threatened with a hockey stick. The student was banging it a foot from the teacher's face telling him that if he doesn't be quiet the stick will be hitting him, not the locker," said one teacher at the school who did not want to be identified because he is afraid he might lose his job for speaking out.
He said teachers have quit or gone on stress leave from the school since December. The teacher said he knows of at least two cases of sexual harassment. One of which he witnessed.
"[The student made] comments about sexual intercourse with this teacher. It led to her crying down in the principal's office. Again nothing was done. The student wasn't sent home and the RCMP wasn't called."
The teacher who alleges she was sexually assaulted told CBC she didn't report it to police but she did tell school administrators about what happened. The Innu Nation School Board has been running the school in Natuashish, an Innu reserve, since last year.
The community was founded in 2002 after residents moved from Davis Inlet, Labrador — a town that became internationally notorious after images of gas-sniffing children there were broadcast around the world.
The current director of the Mushaua Innu Natuashish School has refused to comment on the teachers' complaints or how the school disciplines students.
The teacher who spoke with CBC said his colleagues need more power to discipline students who misbehave.
In January another teacher wrote a letter to the current principal pleading with the board to develop a disciplinary policy with the community. Eighteen teachers signed it.
The school's principal Dave Jackman did not want to do a recorded interview but he said there is now a discipline committee at the school. He said the school is taking the teachers' concerns seriously.