This certainly makes me uncomfortable. It falls in the area of “What could go wrong”?
It casts the teacher as social engineer. I am all for a teacher noticing and extending themselves to a child who is socially awkward or withdrawn and even facilitating pairing during group assignments. But they shouldn’t need to be this intrusive to do so.
Schools are for learning about reading writing, arithmetic, history, science, civics. They are failing at that because of the incorporation of social justice and other clap trap, not to mention quotas instead of discipline.
In the younger grades there is time spent on civilization ie sharing, considering other’s feelings, working as a team and so on. In those years teachers should be making an effort to identify children who need some help navigating the group and making friends. A good teacher doesn’t need a weekly questionnaire to do so. The method suggested may work for a particular teacher but as a general rule seems more like a recipe for meddling than beneficial.
The intrusiveness was a bare minimum etc. The teacher showed a lot of wisdom and compassion--probably quite effective, as well. I only want to cheer her on and encourage others to try similar stuff.
This was the furthest thing from Draconian social engineering carp.