{"id":273103,"date":"2026-04-30T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273103\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:54:09","slug":"dallas-school-crossing-guard-surprised-with-new-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/273103\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas school crossing guard surprised with new car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n-disd-crossing-guard-new-car-surprise-9a_00.00.03.20.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas Independent School District crossing guard got a big surprise on the job.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">On Wednesday afternoon, the parents and community at Lakewood Elementary School in Dallas presented their crossing guard, Mr. Earnest, with a new car.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">They recently learned that he was taking Ubers to work every day, so they worked to raise enough money to purchase a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">As you can imagine, Mr. Earnest was emotional as the parents and students celebrated his new ride.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n-disd-crossing-guard-new-car-surprise-9a_00.00.18.12.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Video shared by the school district shows Mr. Earnest\u2019s tears of joy following the surprise.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Dallas ISD said the heartfelt moment celebrates the lasting impact he\u2019s made on students and families in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Dallas Indepenedent School District.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/organization\/dallas-isd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas ISD<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\/lakewood\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakewood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/heartwarming\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heartwarming News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/education\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; A Dallas Independent School District crossing guard got a big surprise on the job. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,11521,103,163,247,12907,223,1827,216,393],"class_list":["post-273103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-isd","tag-dallas-news","tag-education","tag-heartwarming","tag-lakewood","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}