“It was lame,” said Rocklin High Junior Rachel Croopnick when asked about the latest dance.

For approximately 4,000 students in the Rocklin school district, Valentines Day decided to come early this year. Both Whitney High School and Rocklin High School had their dances in honor of Valentine’s Day this past Saturday, February 7, an entire week before the holiday itself.

For Rocklin High the semi-formal dance was titled the typical “Hearts-A-Fire” and for Whitney the dance was called “Simply Sweet.”

“I did’t go to hearts because no one was going,” said Rocklin Junior Sam Cowley.

Cowley, however, did not stand alone on the matter. “I didn’t go to hearts because I didn’t get asked and I didn’t have a group of friends that were going,” said junior Alex Prekeges.

With seemingly no one going to the dance, could it possibly end well for Rocklin’s “Hearts-A-Fire” or would the whole dance go down in flames?

“I went to hearts, but right when we walked in, we turned around and walked out. It was the worst dance I’ve ever been to in my life. I want to say that about 45 people were there,” said Rocklin student Jake Sitnik.

If Rocklin High’s students weren’t at their dance what were they doing instead? In the case of Rocklin High Sophomore Camille Clark, she was at the Whitney dance instead.

“I think it’s dumb how the two high schools in Rocklin would have dances on the same night. I decided to go to Whitney’s dance instead of ours because it seemed as if no one was going to go to ours and I had a group of friends going to Whitney’s,” Clark said.

More than the titles of the dances seemed to differ in the end.

“I went to the dance because I wanted to have a good time, and yes I thoroughly enjoyed myself,” said Whitney High Senior Scott Palmer.

“I went to the dance to have a good time with my friends. It was a sucky dance, but my friends made it better,” said Whitney Sophomore Marlowe Altamirano.

The amount of students who attend the dances, is seemingly is the key their success.

“It was terrible, there were only 300-400 people there and better songs could have been played. Ultimately the dances to need to change in order to get more people to go,” said Rocklin student Robby Meador.