A bus had been rescheduled. A student was sought for early dismissal. A counselor was doing high school selection. The details of a fight were being investigated by a disciplinarian. In a big school sparsely allocated with staff, the most efficient means of attending to everyone's general concerns were precisely those that frustrated Quixote's specific concerns as a teacher.
Educators are no exception.
Actually, like Jiminy Cricket, Plato dreamed the same dream millennia ago. But, ancient Greeks, unlike many modern Americans, did not think that bigger was better. Consolidating school districts into bigger, more complex entities provided, one must imagine, benefits of some sort to someone. Although the benefits of consolidation, e.g., bigger resource pools, program expansion, multiply for some of us, their costs are disproportionately visited upon the students who could well dispense with them. It depends on what stage of development they are in.