2010 Child theme editing

I am new to child themes. How can I remove the comments from a site? I have the settings turned off.

When I switch to the parent 2010 theme, everything is fine (comments off), but when I switch to my child theme, it comes back on.

Currently, my child theme consists of a style.css with a proper header and

Template:       twentyten
Version:        0.1.0
*/

@import url("../twentyten/style.css");