Materialize checkbox not working

I want to display a grid of checkboxes using html (and django backend). Here is the html I wrote for that. I am using the latest version of Materialize. However the checkboxes I get are unclickable. Am I doing something wrong? I read up that Materialize checkboxes do not working in a <div> tag. My table is indeed in a <div> tag. What is a workaround? If there is no workaround, how to use default html5 checkboxes?

<table class="striped bordered centered">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Departments</th>
            
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        
    </tbody>
</table>