Mercy Culture Pastor Landon Shott posted a video on Instagram with a measles vaccination rate at Mercy Culture Preparation Academy at 14.29%.
FORT WORTH, Texas – The Fort Worth pastor is celebrating the distinction between schools as the least exciting schools in Texas.
Mercy Culture Pastor Landon Shott, who has a measles vaccination rate of 14.29% at Mercy Culture Preparation Academy, posted a video on Instagram celebrating the Mercy Culture Preparation Family “accepting freedom of health.”
“They don’t allow governments or science projects to influence the way you live and lead your life,” Shott said. “I’m sure the whole world is shut down in madness, people are fired from work for forced vaccinations, and freedom is something we take seriously.”
As Shot posted a video in front of the balloons, posing in a t-shirt that he declared his preparation for a mercy culture as the least vacant school in the state.
The Mercy Culture Prep vaccination rate (which must be reported to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services) attracted attention last week amid growing awareness of measles outbreaks in western Texas.
A previous WFAA report showed that Mercy Culture Prep had the lowest MMR vaccination rate in Texas among kindergarteners in the 2023-2024 grades. The MMR vaccine protects against measles, mumps and rubella.
At Cornerstone Christian Academy, the next figure for the MMR vaccination rate in northern Texas was 38.10%.
Most North Texas schools and districts have vaccination rates above 75%, with many vaccination rates in the 90% range. In the 2023-2024 grade, approximately 62 North Texas schools had a 100% vaccination rate among kindergarteners.
“I scream at MC preparation for being the most vaccinated school in Texas,” Shott said in his video. “We take it. Or, as the mercy culture says, we celebrate it. We put it on the board.”
Measles outbreaks were primarily limited to western Texas, but one case was confirmed in adults in northern Texas (Rockwall County), but public health officials and doctors warned that vaccinations are the best protection against the spread of rare viruses.
Measles is “probably the most infectious disease on the planet,” Dr. Suzanne Whitworth, head of pediatric sexually transmitted diseases at Cook Children’s in Fort Worth, previously told the WFAA. “We know that about 40% of children under five who have got measles get caught in the hospital and no one wants it.”
