A 14-year-old Lawrence North High School student was arrested today for slapping his school bus driver on the back of the head.

Driver Janie Tucker, 53, Indianapolis, said the boy hit her as he got off the bus because she tried to get him to turn down the volume of the music coming through his headphones, according to an Indianapolis Metropolitan police report.

Tucker, 53, said she could hear the student’s music from the driver’s seat and asked whoever was playing it to turn it down. When her request was ignored, she went to the student’s seat and both asked and signaled for him to turn the volume down, according to the police report. When he ignored her, Tucker took the boy’s book bag to the front, with the intention of telling the boy to turn the music down when he came to get his bag.

When the boy was getting off the bus at about 7 a.m., Tucker said he hit her in the back of the head and hurled obscenities about touching his property.

The boy told another school employee he did not hit Tucker but his finger accidentally poked her during an argument.

The boy was preliminarily charged with felony battery of school employee while the employee was working.

The Star does not identify juvenile suspects in most cases.