<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579705626818354150.post9048828530437297541..comments</id><updated>2009-09-06T21:28:20.267-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Titanic Deck Chairs: First Day of School</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/feeds/9048828530437297541/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/9048828530437297541/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/2009/09/first-day-of-school.html'/><author><name>C. August</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05860759500684485756</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579705626818354150.post-3689029026436977938</id><published>2009-09-06T21:28:20.267-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-06T21:28:20.267-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Adam, I'd love to know how you convinced the publi...</title><summary type='text'>Adam, I&amp;#39;d love to know how you convinced the public school to change curriculum.  They have been complete arrogant and close-minded in my area.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;C., Plenty of people go through public school and turn out just fine.  I think the biggest contributing factor is a parent who pays attention and catches any deficiencies and deals with them.  That&amp;#39;s one of the reasons places like Kumon</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/9048828530437297541/comments/default/3689029026436977938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/9048828530437297541/comments/default/3689029026436977938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/2009/09/first-day-of-school.html?showComment=1252286900267#c3689029026436977938' title=''/><author><name>Kim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15797561656420404838</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='11994441023677482498'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/2009/09/first-day-of-school.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579705626818354150.post-9048828530437297541' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/posts/default/9048828530437297541' type='text/html'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579705626818354150.post-2626247030344158908</id><published>2009-09-05T00:48:29.914-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T00:48:29.914-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My feelings when my daughter started school were s...</title><summary type='text'>My feelings when my daughter started school were similar.  Then, when I found that the mandated science curriculum had been systematically stripped of concepts, and taught as a chaos of unintegrated facts to be memorized rather than understood, I ran for the school board, won, and spent two years restoring a classical, conceptual curriculum.  You may have some hard work ahead of you.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/9048828530437297541/comments/default/2626247030344158908'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/9048828530437297541/comments/default/2626247030344158908'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/2009/09/first-day-of-school.html?showComment=1252126109914#c2626247030344158908' title=''/><author><name>Adam Reed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06823227714918675799</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.titanicdeckchairs.com/2009/09/first-day-of-school.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1579705626818354150.post-9048828530437297541' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1579705626818354150/posts/default/9048828530437297541' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>