What did Joyce mean? - Dead Man's Party

[Joshua]

She said to Buffy earlier in "Dead Man's Party"

JOYCE (to Buffy): you've made some bad choices, you just have to suffer the conesquences

Idgi what bad choices did she make?

 

[sisterofmercy]

Running away? Getting kicked out of school (twice)? Not telling her mother about being a slayer straight away?

Could have been a whole manner of things.

 

[Ripper666]

I agree with [MENTION=10446]sisterofmercy[/MENTION] and just want to add that she had troubles with the police. Twice I think.

 

[Joshua]

Oops I posted this in the wrong section can an admin move this to Buffy Season 3 Section please?
[MENTION=2739]Darla[/MENTION] [MENTION=8356]HisMrs[/MENTION].

 

[Professor Walsh]

From the shooting script, as I liked the descriptons:

INT. BUFFY'S HOUSE - KITCHEN - DAY

Joyce is pouring herself some coffee as Buffy looks in the fridge. The tension between them is not quite "cut with a knife" thick - but it's getting there.

JOYCE
I've been on the phone with the
superintendent of schools. He seems
more reasonable than that nasty
little horrid bigoted rodent man.
She says it offhand, as though it were Snyder's full name.

BUFFY
Mom-
JOYCE
-anyway, I'm going in to speak with him
this afternoon. As for private schools-
(she pushes some papers toward Buffy)
Miss Porter's accepts late admissions.
I wrote down the information for you-
BUFFY
A girl's school? Okay - so now it's
jackets, kilts and no boys? Care to
throw in a little foot binding?
JOYCE
(hard)
Buffy. You made some bad choices.
You may just have to live with some
consequences.

From this, I'd say it's pretty clear that she's talking about the direct actions that led to Buffy being persona non grata in her schools.

Particularly when we look at what comes next:

Buffy reacts to Joyce's tone. Joyce immediately relents.

JOYCE
Nothing's settled yet. I just wish
you didn't have to be so secretive
about things. I mean, it's not your
fault you have a special
circumstance. They should make
allowances for you.

 

[Cheese Slices]

I always thought she was also talking about her sleeping with Angel, since she wasn't really aware of what happened exactly.

 

[Xin Rong]

I always thought she was also talking about her sleeping with Angel, since she wasn't really aware of what happened exactly.

I would say thats the most dominant thing she was talking about.

 

[VisionGirl]

I think it's all of the above.

 

[PassionBecoming]

Like @mirromur said, I think at that particular point she was speaking of what lead to her getting kicked out of school, but there are undertones of everything else that went with it.

 

[Jules]

I also thought that she was referring to Buffy running away at the end of season 2.

I dont think that Buffy's mum had the right to say that she'd made bad choices about anything else.