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In new Taipei City, a teacher surnamed Hsieh refused to use the special transmitter microphone for the hearing impaired elementary school student and even demanded the student to take off the hearing aid in front of the whole class. The student was traumatized by the incident and did not want to go to school the next day. His parents were furious and the school decided to hold a disciplinary meeting and the results will be out in June. The little boy standing on the podium, his hands holding props, vividly told his story. He is a hearing-impaired 2nd grade student in New Taipei City. In kindergarten he began to wear a hearing aid. He was shocked when a few days ago in school a 52-year-old female teacher surnamed Hsieh asked, in front of the whole class for him to unplug his hearing aid. A class mentor teacher, sitting in the back of the classroom, witnessed the whole incident, and quarreled with the class teacher. Afterwards the boy was traumatized and the next day did not want to go to class, which parents his found unusual. ==CHILD'S PARENT== Teacher Hsieh had no sympathy for the children and did not know what hearing impaired children need. She asked him to take off the hearing aid. She is not at all suitable to be a teacher. The parents were angry. Their son cannot hear certain frequencies and needs to use an FM frequency hearing aid. Teacher Hsieh thought he could hear and refused to let him use his hearing aid or use the FM microphone. The student felt that the teacher was very unsympathetic and unable to control her emotions. The parents urged the school to stop her employment as a teacher. ==ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HEAD TEACHER== Teacher Hsieh didn't appear to think she was in the wrong. As soon as I heard about this, I immediately told her that she must use the FM microphone otherwise the child cannot hear properly, but she refused me and was not willing to compromise. The school said that Teacher Hsieh had left her job for four years to go and study in the US and came back last year. However, there had been many incidents where parents complained about her. Thus in the last semester she was removed from fifth grade mentor duties. At a meeting to deal with unfit teachers, a process against her was started and results will be sent to an education review committee in June. The most serious punishment is dismissal. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR