Bryanna Madsen #

Introduction #

Bryanna Madsen is a former preschool teacher at Over the Rainbow Early Learning Center in Springfield Township, in the Toledo area, who was dismissed in January 2026 after multiple people reported that she had used a racist term in a Toledo-area Facebook group. The slur appeared in a comment thread under a meme Madsen had shared of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris criticizing immigration, and the exchange that followed — a screenshot reply invoking Charlie Kirk, a racial slur, and an image of a chimpanzee — turned an ordinary political meme into the end of her job. The incident and the firing were first reported on January 16, 2026, at 2:20 p.m., and Over the Rainbow confirmed Madsen’s termination while offering no further details.

Background Information #

Madsen worked at Over the Rainbow Early Learning Center in Springfield Township, one of the center’s two Toledo-area locations. According to the center’s website, Over the Rainbow serves children from 6 weeks to 12 years old and operates sites in Sylvania and Springfield Township. That clientele — infants, toddlers, and school-age children — is the backdrop against which the Facebook exchange was ultimately judged, because the concern raised about Madsen went directly to her fitness to care for young children. Madsen’s employment at the center was corroborated by earlier posts on its Facebook pages, which were still online before the incident became public; since then, the Facebook pages for the Springfield Township site and the center’s other location have been taken down. Madsen herself declined to comment on the incident.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation #

Confirmed vs. reported. Two facts are firmly established: Madsen’s employment at Over the Rainbow, corroborated by the center’s own earlier Facebook posts before they were removed, and her termination, which the center itself confirmed. The details of the Facebook exchange — the “We are Charlie Kirk” screenshot reply, the racial slur, and the chimpanzee image — come from the thread itself as described in published reporting and in the public account of commenter Aiyana Hutchen. The center confirmed the firing but offered no further details about what prompted it, and Madsen declined to comment.

The controversy began with a meme. Madsen shared a meme of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris criticizing immigration to a Toledo-area Facebook group, and a comment thread formed underneath it. In that thread, commenter Aiyana Hutchen replied with a screenshot of Madsen’s profile photo labeled “We are Charlie Kirk,” accompanied by laughing emojis. Madsen shot back that she was not Charlie Kirk and used a racial slur she claimed he would not say. In another reply in the same thread, Madsen posted a picture of a chimpanzee.

The published reporting describes the language only as a racial slur and does not republish the term itself. Taken together, the screenshot taunt, the slur, and the chimpanzee image formed the exchange that multiple people reported, and that ended with Madsen’s dismissal from a job caring for children as young as six weeks old.

Public Reaction and Consequences #

The reaction documented in the reporting centers on Aiyana Hutchen, the commenter who received the slur. Hutchen said the exchange made her fearful about Madsen’s role working with Black children, though she doubted the center would respond. Her main concern, she said, was that someone with those views should not be caring for children, who “deserve love and a caring environment” that she did not believe Madsen could provide.

The concrete consequence followed quickly: after multiple people reported Madsen’s comment, Over the Rainbow dismissed her on Monday, January 12, 2026. The center confirmed the termination but offered no further details, including whether it has a social media policy. The Facebook pages for Over the Rainbow’s Springfield Township site and its other location have since been taken down.

Current Status #

Madsen’s dismissal stands as the one confirmed outcome of the episode: her former employer acknowledged it directly while declining to elaborate on the circumstances or on any workplace policies involved. Madsen has not commented publicly beyond her remarks in the Facebook thread itself. No subsequent statement from Over the Rainbow, no announcement about a social media policy, and no report of Madsen’s next professional step appears in the published reporting. At the time of the reporting, the center’s website still described Over the Rainbow as operating its two Toledo-area sites, in Sylvania and Springfield Township.

Impact on Their Career/Life #

The firing ended Madsen’s job at Over the Rainbow Early Learning Center, a facility serving children from 6 weeks to 12 years old at its two Toledo-area sites. The case shows how quickly conduct in a personal Facebook thread — a taunting screenshot exchange, a racial slur, and a chimpanzee image — can cost an early-childhood educator her position once the people who see it report it to her employer. Beyond the dismissal itself, the documented consequences are narrow: the center confirmed the firing but offered no further details, Madsen declined to comment, and her remarks in the thread remain the only public record of her side of the episode. The removal of the center’s Facebook pages has since left fewer public traces of both the exchange and her employment there.