Pretty sure cursive has been developed independently multiple times. I know Chinese has it's own version of cursive. And it's much harder to learn given that there is so many characters.

I think they are correctly noticing that typing is a better skill. 

People don't use cursive anymore because handwriting isn't used as much anymore. 

I would prefer that time be spent teaching typing and move cursive to optional calligraphy classes. 

Where a student could pick between learning cursive or a foreign language. 

There are people still typing with only two fingers.