Is it a Mortal Sin when homeschooled teenager consistently refuses to do his schoolwork

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I wouldn’t recommend any of what you propose. It is a surefire way to visit alienation on both directions of the relationship (parent to child and child to parent). Unless, of course, that is what you are going for. A 15 year old kid is too young to be alienated from his parents. It never turns out well.

This parent seems to have perhaps prevented her child from spreading his wings in an appropriate manner through each stage of child development. Now,at 15, he is pushing back. All perfectly normal, and to be expected, given the circumstances. A family counselor can help with strategies.
 
Yes, and knowledge of Latin or Greek or… depending how historical you’re talking. Some scholars can read hieroglyphics. Most of us can’t.

I’m sure the loss of hieroglyphics was lamented. Cursive as we know it will die. That is 100% certain.
 
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Wife.of.Gabriel said:
It seems he’s made that decision for himself already by his continuous refusal to be educated in homeschool, as parents you have no choice but to immediately put him into a public school. When he refuses to do his work there at age 15, the school will have no choice but to get the police involved. In society’s eyes, he’s breaking the law (children must be educated until at least age 16) & in the Church’s eyes, he’s breaking the 4th Commandment “Honor your Father & your Mother”.

Definitely, explain in detail this consequence of his behavior public school with possible jail time if he continues this behavior in public school and then give him a very short deadline for him to catch up (2 weeks, 1 week) & if he doesn’t completely change his behavior and isn’t completely caught up by the end of the deadline you set then he will go to public school summer school & in the Fall because he’s taken his education options are out of your hands. He’ll be society’s problem.
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I’d be very, very surprised if any school got the police involved if a student refused to do their work. I’d imagine the police would never leave - it would be a waste of time. A school would punish him yes, but I’d doubt they’d call the police and tell him he could go to jail.

I don’t think that kind of approach would work at all, but as others have said, the OP’s son opened up to her and now they can move on.
 
This sounds like depression. He needs counseling and psychiatric care ASAP.
 
Granted, my office is a little out of the ordinary - parish office for a medium size parish.

All of the Sacramental Registers require handwriting.

We send letters and cards out every day, it is FAR easier to hand write the address than to set up a printer that might or might not jam or to waste a sheet of labels just to send out 5 envelopes, so, they are hand written.

I hand write in my calendar/journal book.

My husband takes many notes at his doctors appointments. It is far easier to look back in notes than to try to listen/rewind a voice recording.

Same goes for taking minutes at meetings.

Good penmanship never goes out of style.
 
I make notes on my phone or laptop. Far faster and ultimately more efficient - especially as they are automatically backed up and cannot be lost / damaged.
 
I had a phone crash and lost everything, you do not know what is not backed up until it is gone. Important things I later type up from notes. I am a super fast typist, but, I will always be able to hand write faster than I can type.
 
In some ways I wonder if the boy’s worrying about the future may be more common now than in the past. When I was 15, I barely gave any thought to the future. I didn’t worry about it all through high school or even through college. I thought I would figured it out when the time came. And I did. But now I’ve noticed that kids sometimes seem pushed into thinking about future plans as early as high school, grade school, or earlier! If I had tried to plan out my life that early I would have missed a lot of opportunities.
 
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