The girl had a Lancet. Not a needle. Not a hypodermic syringe.
A Lancet.
The lancets themselves are tiny, and the device they are loaded into does looks very much like an oversize pen. Especially if you hadn't seen one before (which I hadn't until my wife suffered through gestational diabetes). So it's not surprising that it wasn't immediately obvious what was going on.
I agree that what the kid was doing wrong, and that the mother should be more careful with her glucometer. But this story is unneccesarily over the top. It's not like the 3rd grader was running around with Mom's drug paraphenilia that was left out on the coffee table or some such hyperbole.
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