**HEADLINE: “THE HANDMAID’S TALE” NO MORE? CRITICS DECRY NEW “TESTAMENTS” CURRICULUM AS BLUEPRINT FOR AUTHORITARIANISM**
**Gilead, USA** – In a move that has moral critics up in arms, a coalition of school boards has adopted the fictional “Testaments” of the dystopian novel *The Handmaid’s Tale* as a foundational text for high school civics classes. The curriculum, which treats the tome’s “Aunt Lydia’s testimony” as a historically accurate account of societal collapse, claims to teach students “the necessary evils of order in the face of moral decay.” Opponents warn this is not education—it is indoctrination into a totalitarian mindset, where women’s rights are traded for “security.”
“They’re teaching our daughters that a woman’s greatest virtue is sacrifice and submission to a patriarchal state,” said Dr. Helena Crane, a professor of ethics. “This isn’t preparing them for citizenship; it’s priming them for a handmaid’s bonnet.” As school boards across three states adopt the curriculum, the nation watches a chilling line blur between fiction and law. Critics ask: Are we reading the story, or are we writing our own?