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A concerned mother pulled her 8-year-old daughter out of the last week of school, after two syringes were found on the field at A.S. Matheson Elementary School.

A student found the syringes, Thursday, during recess and brought them to an adult. The syringes were capped.

Kristy Begley said that the incident was not well broadcast to the public, other than an email to the parents.

“It was not mentioned to any of the children yesterday at all and it was not mentioned to the parents when we dropped the children off today,” Begley said. “There’s a lot of children who play in that field, there’s soccer practices, and it doesn’t seem like they’re interested in telling the public, it was just ‘hey lets cover our own butts.’”

Hugh Gloster, superintendent of the Central Okanagan School District, said that the syringes were capped, and appeared to be for a diabetic, rather than for drug use.

“It wasn’t like they were left exposed at all, and the student handed them in,” Gloster said. “Quite frankly, pretty minor issue here.”

The RCMP were not contacted about the incident or to identify the type of needle it was, but the Parent Advisory Council was contacted by the principal, Gloster said.

They still haven’t told us what they’re going to do to prevent this from happening in the future, which is part of where our concern was,” Begley said. “You find something like that and you’d hope they’d do something like that moving forward.”