School has started at Pleasant Valley High School and that means clubs have too. PV offers many options when it comes to clubs. For example, Dungeons & Dragons club started in early September. Mrs. Kovacs, the choir and piano teacher, took over after its last advisor exited. Relating to that, what are Mrs. Kovacs’ plans for the D&D club? She says that “yeah, well, [D&D]’s not really my thing. Umm… it’s more of Stugo’s thing”.
Mrs. Kovacs not having anything in specific planned for the club demonstrates that not only this club, but a lot of other clubs aren’t necessarily decided by the advisors. Some advisors are there to make decisions, but in a lot of clubs the students get to make the decisions. Because of this, students such as Dallas James are really excited to start “watching everybody in my campaign slowly suffering and losing their sanity” in the D&D club.
With clubs in general, students are more readily able to find places that they can communicate with their peers and even make new friends. People in clubs could even enjoy new activities or interact with the community around them. And without people such as the student government for the D&D club, or people who run other clubs, you wouldn’t have these spaces on school grounds that allow students to more readily communicate with their friends and do other activities.
Without the resilience of the people running clubs, the people in charge of the D&D club may not have been able to get a new advisor to run it. And no-matter what club it is, students would be left without an easy-to-go place to hang out and do what they enjoy if a club disappeared. If one doesn’t have resilience to carry on with clubs, fun places at school might not exist.
Clubs are integral to most students and allow for good opportunities to everyone in them. To elaborate on this, Macie Green says that people should consider joining clubs “because it gives you a great opportunity to meet new people and to be a part of different experiences”, for example, clubs allowed them to “meet a bunch of new people and new friends”. Because PV Vikings have resilience, people are able to join clubs, have fun, and experience new opportunities.
