Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Juvenile Law
Respondent, while being transported on school bus to therapeutic day school for children with mental health problems, struck school bus monitor in the arms. Charge was elevated to aggravated battery based on allegation that bus monitor was public transportation employee. School bus monitor is not a public transportation employee within meaning of aggravated-battery statute. School buses are not available to the general public; and legislature has made numerous distinctions between "school buses" and "public transportation." (TURNER and APPLETON, concurring.)