A Black teacher says she was the target of abusive and hostile treatment while teaching at an elementary school in Mount Laurel, New Jersey — and now she's hitting back with a lawsuit.

As NBC News reports, Tammy Jordan taught second grade at Larchmont Elementary School between 2016 and 2018, making her one of the first Black teachers at the school in nearly three decades. 

In a 27-page lawsuit filed on May 29 in U.S. District Court, Jordan says she was the recipient of racist comments on a daily basis and she was often excluded or ignored by white colleagues who also taught second grade at the school.

Jordan claims her colleagues spoke to her like she wasn't as smart as they were, and would allegedly say statements like: “I would show you my lesson plans, but you won’t understand them anyway" and "can you even understand me?” Her colleagues also denied her access to classroom equipment needed for lessons, the lawsuit continues.

It got so bad that Jordan says she stopped leaving her classroom, as every time she left, she was 'the recipient of abusive and hostile treatment.'"

Jordan says she reported the harassment to the school principal, George Jackson. She says that Jackson, a Black man, acknowledged that there were "issues of systemic racism," at the school, but that Jackson "had to be like the movie 'Hidden Figures.'"

Jackson apparently told Jordan that her white colleagues didn't know what they were doing and didn't mean anything by their actions.

But in her suit, Jordan claims she felt "humiliated, degraded, victimized, embarrassed and emotionally distressed." In addition to loss of income and benefits, Jordan claims she suffers from permanent psychological injuries.

According to NBC, a statement from the Mount Laurel School District claims that Jordan's allegations are "untrue" and misleading.

"We intend to vigorously defend this baseless attack on our entire school community and demonstrate that one inaccurate and false accounting is not in any way representative of the Mount Laurel Township Schools," the statement said.