I love Abbott Elementary! I think it is the most realistic school show I've ever seen and I really love that they use neighborhood kids as the extras. That being said, Bottoms is not Abbott lol. It is rated R for very good reasons. While Abbott deals with reality, this one is pure fantasy. All of the teachers and administrators swear like drunken sailors in front of and at the kids. I don't want to spoil it but the kid in the cage has to do with the jock dynamic in the movie. Actually one of the reasons I liked this is the absurd hyperbole throughout. It is like if you stub your toe and accidentally say "shit!" the word spreads that you are the teacher who swears all the time and the strong grows with each telling to the point where the word on the street is you did a full rendition of Eddie Murphy's Raw during class.