[majormajor]

I'm curious, what do you mean by "extended surprise expectation inversion"? Google didn't turn up much.

[patio11]

Explanation by way of example:

Teen pregnancy. School stabbings. Teacher abuse scandals. Classroom mayhem. Flat test scores. Declining graduation rates. It's enough to make Japanese parents wish their kids went to school in America.

(That is pretty much verbatim from an essay I wrote in college. I use this trick a lot.)