The quality of schooling in Aurukun has been called into question, with calls for an urgent review of an education model a federal MP has described as a failure.
The troubled indigenous community's only school has closed for at least six weeks after the last of 20 teachers were removed from the northern Queensland township on Thursday amid fears for their personal safety.
The evacuation, the second in two weeks, has raised questions about indigenous leader Noel Pearson's education model in Cape York.
Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch said education in Aurukun had to be reviewed as current arrangements were proving costly and unsuccessful.
"Personally, I think it's a failed model," Mr Entsch told AAP.
"While he (Mr Pearson) has some great ideas, they shouldn't be at the expense of the community."
Queensland Teachers Union president Kevin Bates said teachers had also raised concerns about the education model, particularly around the absence of local schooling for students in years 7 to 10.
Mr Pearson told ABC Radio on Thursday there had never been a high school in the community, describing what was previously offered as a "babysitting" facility that lured young people to return home from legitimate high schools in Brisbane and Townsville.
He also dismissed Mr Entsch's comments, saying they stemmed from a mutual dislike for one another.
The indigenous leader said the success of Aurukun's school had inspired dozens of other Australian facilities to adopt its direct instruction teaching method.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk held a crisis meeting on Wednesday where she ordered the closure of the school and evacuation of its teachers.
It followed a series of targeted attacks near the teachers' accommodation on Tuesday night involving a group of children, some as young as six.
School principal Scott Fatnowna was car-jacked and attacked for the second time in a fortnight just a few days earlier.
Queensland Police's Northern Region Assistant Commissioner Paul Taylor said on Thursday a 13-year-old boy had been charged over Tuesday's incidents, while several others had been arrested.
Despite the violence, Mr Pearson said the decision to close the school was "a knee-jerk reaction".
"I think other options ought to have been explored," he said.
Mr Pearson also took aim at the government over the accommodation offered to teachers in Aurukun.
"This is the Afghanistan of teaching, it is that hard," he said.
"The Aurukun facilities in particular are dilapidated and unfit for the teachers that live in them."
Ms Palaszczuk said an experienced principal and two teachers would travel to Aurukun on Monday to support students in the distance education program being run out of the community's PCYC.
The announcement came after Aurukun elders lashed out at the government's decision to close the school until July, accusing it of abandoning the school's 300-odd students.
"We have 10-15 teenagers controlling the government like puppeteers," the Wik Women's Group said in a statement.
The premier is planning an emergency visit to Aurukun on Friday.
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