Screams and cries emanate from the vicinity of the elevators, startling students.
Academically, the benefits were startling: students in the pilot areas made faster progress than their peers outside the pilot; children did better in exams.
In the last couple of years, he's visited more than 300 schools around the country, sometimes startling students who had written him fan letters with surprise visits in front of their lockers.
One by one, they entered from different doors, startling the students with an impromptu concert featuring a tambourine, a gaita (a Spanish bagpipe) and a Chinese flute.
Even with these startling statistics, students will continue to borrow money in order to pay for college.
Meanwhile, Dr Xavier is still running his palatial school for gifted children which soon becomes home to a startling new star student, high-schooler Scott Summers Tye Sheridann) – otherwise known as Cyclops.
But even as I watched delighted relatives, friends and supporters cheer as their loved ones walked across the stage, I couldn't help but be reminded of these startling statistics on student debt.
Even in public universities, a startling 48% of students come from the richest fifth of society.
And so it is that each year, when Nancy Foner, a professor of sociology at Hunter, requires the students in her course "The Peopling of New York" to interview a close relative about the family's recent history, the discoveries are often startling, to the students as well as to their classmates.
In 2016, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program CIRPP) survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at UCLA revealed startling insight into students' concerns: two-thirds of all incoming freshman expressed some or major concern about their ability to afford the cost of attending college.
