"We are actually just preemptively packing just in case we are let go on Wednesday," said Tara Brown, a math teacher.

Brown and several other teachers at Cary Middle School used carts to carry out boxes of personal belongings to their cars. Similar scenes happened late last week, too.

Teachers on the campus said they worry layoffs will be particularly harsh Wednesday as the Dallas Independent School District cuts 550 teachers.

"Class sizes will increase and that could create the problem of teachers trying to reach every child like we try to do," said Teresa Lackey, a writing teacher who has taught for 23 years.

News 8 learned Cary Middle School might lose as many as 34 teachers, which is almost half its entire staff, making it potentially the hardest hit school in the entire district.

"I think that Skyline has a larger number of people, but they're a larger school," said Rena Honea, Alliance AFT vice president. “But yes, at the middle school level, Cary is definitely the largest impacted."

Medrano Middle School, a few miles away, is the reason Cary will likely get hit so hard. When the campus opened, half of Cary's students came to the school, but none of its teachers did. Exactly why that was the case is uncertain, but the district says the principal can hire whomever he or she wants.

While veterans at Cary Middle School might get moved to other campuses, Brown fears not everyone will, though.

"You know what's sad is this doesn't just affect us, it affects the kids," she said.

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