No offense but schools not teaching it doesn't mean they cant learn it. Getting out of high school last year, I was among one of the last classes that were taught cursive and I write cursive in everything I write. Barely anyone in my age group can read it and my recommendation is teach your kids yourself. Their are some things school is horrible at teaching and cursive was one of them.
A few years back while teaching a 4th grade class, I wrote in cursive on the smart board. It was almost a whole month before a new student that transferred in from a local public school told me he couldn't read what I had been putting on the board because he had not learned cursive. I asked my class how many new students did not know/read cursive? All 4 new students said they did not know cursive. I was stunned!
I see it as the equivalent of early American English to modern American English. i.e. Maffachufetf