Why don't people learn to turn the sound down? Once again highly amplified music is making the news around here: a nearby elementary school got a fine for refusing to turn down the music while kids were supposedly doing exercises outside.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with kids making noise at noon and during recess.  But when the neighbors can't think because the music the kids are moving to is too loud, it's perfectly right to ask to turn it down.  And turning it down is only neighborly...