I feel your pain. My secondary school (ages 11 - 16 with 17-18 optional, in this country) was the worst experience of my life.
It was a catholic nutjob school
Only boys of course. No coed. 7 years of only boys.
Crappy uniforms of shirts ties and blazers to be warn in hot or cold. Shoes polished and all that.
NO SPORT.
NO RUNNING in playground allowed, not even playing football with a stone which was punishable by detention, no talking in groups of larger than 5.
No mobile phones. Having a mobile phone punished not by detention but by suspension from school for a week
No visiting shops after school. Teachers posted to shops in the area to make sure no one went in. Detention if caught.
Everyone had to use the assigned train station. Years 1-3 one train station. Years 3-5 another. Teachers posted to train stations to make sure no one is using wrong station.
School lunch mandatory even if it sucked. Moreover to get to lunch 1 had to wait in a long line that got 10 minutes shorter every year. Lines were arranged based on year and then alphabetical order (surname)
No outside food allowed. If school lunch sucked, or if it run out which it sometimes did, you just had to make it through the day hungry. Tough.
If it rained, which it often does in this country we had to sit in class but got punished by detention if we tried to do our homework
The school did not have the money to buy space for playground cos instead it spent thousands on its own small church and its own hymn books.
If I dig out my old rule book will probably remind myself of a lot more of these idiotic ideas.
Everytime i vistied a foreign country i felt it had robbed me of my childhood. Feel the same way right now. Hate it as much as when i left nearly 4 years ago.