Charles (Chuck) Deyoe is the face behind the help students receive for attendance struggles and graduation support, apart from counselors and the vice principals.
He works with many students and helps them succeed by any means possible. Deyoe helps in many areas, from attendance, checking grades, one-on-one help, and even helping run homework club. He wants to build a safe relationship with students and help them plan and look for the future.
Deyoe sees about 30 kids a day, but it can vary. Overall, he has 70 students in his caseload. A piece of advice he tells students who are absent all the time is, “School is not made for everyone to succeed, but unfortunately, if you don’t graduate, your life choices are limited.” He mentioned that when students are always absent, the schools don’t always look into why they are absent. He brought up that school staff work for the students as a school and should see how they can help from the outside.
He tries to be a bridge between students and admin to get their voices heard. Being absent affects your performance in school. To be chronically absent means you miss fifteen to eighteen or more days of school. The more days a student is absent, the lower their success rate gets. When preventing chronic absences, it’s important to include the family; it’s helpful to learn what the parents think Barlow is doing right or wrong.
He states that it’s never too late to turn it around and for it to be the day to show up. Deyoe does his part by keeping his own profile of the student. He gets to know the students and builds the common trust and understanding. He looks at what motivates the student and how he can incorporate that into his work. Being absent can affect not only the students’ performance in school but also the social aspect. It helps them build the habit of being around people and doing things they may not want to do. Deyoe has no particular goal of absences he wants to bring down; he just wants to see the change from before he came into the picture to after, which he hopes is positive. He typically works one-on-one with students, but sometimes he works with a group of 1-3 kids. When he does pull students to talk, he tries to work with their schedule and pull them during their elective classes rather than core classes.
Deyoe started working at Barlow in August of this year. In his free time, he likes to spend a lot of time with his eight-year-old daughter. He spends his time in nature and has been gaming since he was in high school. He also enjoys the beach and reading when he gets the chance. Before working at Barlow, he worked with African youth who came out of detention, enrolled them into schools in their area, and checked in with them throughout the year. Fun fact about Deyoe: he has worked with every school in the tri-county area. He has a couple of secret talents he doesn’t talk about often, like how he was a college soccer athlete at GCU, and he surfed when lived in Phoenix and would drive to the California coast to surf. So far, during his time at Barlow, his favorite part has been the community. All the vice principals and Mr. Bhear model their work. He appreciates the counseling team because this is his first time seeing counselors work so hard for students. Deyoe does so much for the school, enjoys his time here at Barlow, and looks forward to many years to come.
