I’ve been asking the 20 year olds I’m around daily about cursive writing and they say they are not taught to write cursive, but can read it. They say that they are taught key boarding instead. I told them I was taught both in school. Of course in my day key boarding -typing- was an elective.
It is useful to be able to write faster than it would be possible to print, but the style of "always-connected" cursive that was taught in the late 20th century is not amenable to fast legible writing. Both speed and legibility can be improved if one connects things which logically should be connected, while leaving disconnected those things where connection improves neither speed nor legibility (moving the pen from place to place along its most natural path without lifting it is faster than lifting it first, but lifting the pen and moving it along the natural path may be faster than leaving it on the paper but having to move it along a trickier path; if the tricky-path stroke will at best not make the text less legible than it would be without it, why bother?).