What's the alarm? Without cursive you can still communicate perfectly well by most forms of reading and writing, with the specific exception of longer form hand-written documents which are becoming rare in society.

In elementary school I learned cursive and was told it was very important because when I got to college all professors would require submissions to be in neat, legible cursive writing.

When I got to high school any submission not printed in Times New Roman, 12pt, Double Spaced would be graded as zero.

When I got to college it was the same but submitted to an online portal instead of printed.