As one who has fought my local school district for several years, you are exactly right.
when i was in high school, some schmuck predicted a shortage of guidance counselors. so everybody going into career counselign was counselled into being (you guessed it) a guidance counselor.
so the next thing you know, there’s a glut of guidance counselors, adn those people who let the school decide what they should be found themselves in trouble. too much competition for too few jobs...