My HS had a lot of clubs (mid 2010’s) but I found them very high pressure and full of “I need this for my college application” types. Always ended up feeling like another class where there would be some giant, resume worthy high pressure project or competition at the end of the semester to prep for and if you ever missed a meeting you’d get blamed and shamed by other club members for being lazy… or legit get kicked out.

I ended up legit not being in any clubs after freshman year bc I kept getting sick all the time and would get shamed for not being able to go every single week.