My mentor is a jerk. And he is my ONLY mentor and I have been practicing teaching since August.

My school is a university prep school. All the teachers have a minimum of a bachelor's degree. We have a large Korean population. Sometimes the parents are confused about how things are done in the US. I try to be patient with them. <br><br>I did not start my school in September with the rest of the school. I started in August. My first day i was given 17 pages of paperwork to fill out and then I was thrown into a classroom to help a teacher. I had no idea what I was doing. Not even how to get the copier to work. After that, I was bounced between classrooms for 45 minutes every day 3 days a week. I did not have a mentor assigned to me until October. <br><br>When I started working in my mentor teacher's classroom, he did not talk to me. All the other teachers talk to me, but he barely says a word. We went to lunch together and I tried to make conversation but he was cold and distant. I kept asking him questions and he gave me brief replies. I worked 1 hour in his class once a week. Sometimes twice if he had a parent conference. Then I started working one day a week in a different class room. I'm a student teacher in a classroom for 2 hours a day once a week. I'm supposed to start student teaching full time in January, but now the mentor teacher from that classroom is taking over. I'm going to be working in her classroom full time next semester.<br><br>What do I do? I was going to talk to the department chair this week after the parent conferences, but it's possible they won't even be at school. I would be talking to the department chair because they are the person that assigned me the mentor. The vice principal is the one who placed me in the student teaching classroom. Do I also tell them that my mentor teacher is being unprofessional? I'm worried that my mentor teacher will be angry with me for complaining and start giving me bad reviews.