CARY, N.C. (WNCN) — Elementary school parents in Wake County expressed outrage over comments about safety and school shootings by the superintendent of Wake County Public Schools during a community meeting on Monday.

Parents told CBS 17 that Superintendent Dr. Robert Taylor told them that while school shootings happen, the district's job is to minimize damage, not prevent them.

"It really made a lot of people upset, mad, angry, scared," said Heidi Belisle, PTA president at Durant Road Elementary School.

Taylor reportedly compared the modular classrooms at Durant Road Elementary to the guards at the front gate of Fort Bragg, as the school's first line of defense. Those classrooms house fourth and fifth graders, including Melissa Schofield's son.

"If you tell any parent, it was their kid

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