Yes, this is happening quite frequently -- for example, some of the people hired to talk to those students as individual human beings are often social workers/counselors/etc. My mother is one and, for instance, and they're trying to "expand her horizons & allow her to grow" by placing her in schools where she can't put her own individual skills where they are most needed (her specialization is in elementary school age children, and they wanted to place her in a high school.) This would mean that 1) she is unable to help the high school children (which is considered unethical & harmful) and 2) her prior student-counselor relationships are to be disregarded & completely forgotten.
Everything is so bureaucratic & managed, as you said, in collectives.