At UC San Diego, one out of every eight incoming freshman do not meet middle school math standards

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might their current crisis be temporary, and subside once kids who did not have to endure prolonged zoom school (or at least not past some elementary school grade where catch up will have happened) are no longer the pipeline?

I don’t think so - you would expect performance to increase over time as COVID goes further and further into the past and kids have had more and more time to shore up gaps and recover. Rather I think it ties into the “new normal” of COVID-era empathetic policies becoming permanent and a year of easy cheating setting a habit that carried on through high school, especially in an easy to cheat subject like math.