Our son had long hair for basically all of his first year of school, it was past his shoulders, not once did he get bullied or have any kid mention it. He also goes to a catholic school and there was absolutely no issue. There is a boy in his year level who has hair half way down his back that he wears in a pony tail, again, no teasing from anyone, even the older kids (many of which have longer hair themselves). I just don’t think it’s an issue these days, people can have their hair anyway and kids don’t care. They are either lying about the bullying for attention, or it’s something else. Also, if my kid was getting bullied, I’d be taking action.. if it continued we’d probably move schools. I don’t follow these idiots, so I’m not sure how often they bring the bullying up, but at this point it reflects badly on them (obviously more so the bullies) if they haven’t taken steps to figure out a way to stop the teasing.
Could it actually be his teeth that is the cause of the bullying? It’s terrible, bullies suck, but I imagine the teeth are more of an issue than the hair (the hair is shocking btw, it needs some sort of style).