(Anecdotal) I'm currently a high school student who participated in an IT class and a lightweight coding club. Something that at least is an issue here is that

(Anecdotal) I'm currently a high school student who participated in an IT class and a lightweight coding club. Something that at least is an issue here is that there simply isn't much of an interest in programming to begin with. The IT class was canceled after I finished it, due to the majority of people in that class being auto-assigned, rather than voluntarily joined. Coding club consisted of only my friends and ~2-3 other people who were only mildly interested. Even in the 8th grade, there were opportunities to learn this sort of stuff, and nobody cared. Again, anecdotal, but still a factor.