Even while you take a break from advocating, you may wish to continue documenting events and incidents as they occur and/or as you become aware of them. This documentation would include dates and refer to work samples, assignments, etc. A private journal kept at home and used exclusively for education notes could contain the documentation.

The parents in your group may also wish to coach your kids on developing and practicing self-advocacy skills.

Unfortunately, retaliation happens. Here is a link to an old thread, Have you ever sensed "retaliation?"

It may help parents to understand that in the current educational climate in US public schools, both school ratings/rankings and teacher evaluation/compensation are increasingly based on achieving equal outcomes for all. Therefore US public schools may be less concerned with helping gifted pupils achieve their potential and more concerned with closing achievement gaps and excellence gaps. Unfortunately, sometimes this is accomplished by capping the growth of the students at the top. Other threads discuss buzzwords for educational experiences and different grading strategies which may be utilized to accomplish this. While some of these may seem retaliatory, in general they are not personal but reflect the school has different goals than those aspired to by many gifted students and their families.

Schools and parents may be considered to be working "at crossed purposes".