Sarah Rothe, an eighth-grader at

Sarah Rothe, an eighth-grader at Lake Braddock Middle School in Burke, said such words "are as common as the word 'like' " at her school. Classmate Christina Jagodnick said "there's a big difference" between anti-gay slurs and other derogatory terms. "If we were to say other words which we all know are wrong," she said, "someone would stop us."