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because Buffy got into trouble for blowing up her old school.
She burned down the gym, I don't think there's any mention of her blowing up the school though? In School Hard she's even making excuses to Synder about how that was never actually proven to be her, so she would have presumably tried to come up to similar excuses to Joyce at that time, rather than coming across as a full-out delinquent who deliberately set fire to the building...At worst it would appear to Joyce that Buffy got involved with a bad crowd, and was then the one (unfairly?) blamed and trying to make excuses when things went wrong, but I find it hard to picture Buffy as coming across as completely going off the rails, that just doesn't fit with the Buffy we meet who is constantly trying to cover up her slaying and appear to be toeing the line
We the viewer know of course that she would have been covering up for vampire slaying in reality, but that still = her not being an actual ~bad kid~ at that time and trying not to upset her mother with her behaviour, so surely the gym burning down and Buffy getting kicked out would have seemed like an hugely out of character anomaly to Joyce? Yet I always got that vibe that Joyce was just waiting for Buffy's past issues to start up again, and that seemed very unfair to me when Buffy was clearly hanging with a VERY different crowd in Sunnydale, and she really wasn't getting into that much trouble outside of Synder taking a dislike to her.
Joyce wanted Sunnydale to be a fresh start, but it seemed like she was the one that wasn't prepared to actually go with that. Her excessive punishing of Buffy in Bad Eggs for example only makes sense if Joyce was still stuck on that LA mindset of not trusting Buffy and wanting to know exactly where she is at all times, otherwise it shouldn't have been that big a deal that Buffy wasn't in the exact spot of the library during a supposed "gas leak" evacuation
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because Buffy got into trouble for blowing up her old school.
She burned down the gym, I don't think there's any mention of her blowing up the school though? In School Hard she's even making excuses to Synder about how that was never actually proven to be her, so she would have presumably tried to come up to similar excuses to Joyce at that time, rather than coming across as a full-out delinquent who deliberately set fire to the building...At worst it would appear to Joyce that Buffy got involved with a bad crowd, and was then the one (unfairly?) blamed and trying to make excuses when things went wrong, but I find it hard to picture Buffy as coming across as completely going off the rails, that just doesn't fit with the Buffy we meet who is constantly trying to cover up her slaying and appear to be toeing the line
We the viewer know of course that she would have been covering up for vampire slaying in reality, but that still = her not being an actual ~bad kid~ at that time and trying not to upset her mother with her behaviour, so surely the gym burning down and Buffy getting kicked out would have seemed like an hugely out of character anomaly to Joyce? Yet I always got that vibe that Joyce was just waiting for Buffy's past issues to start up again, and that seemed very unfair to me when Buffy was clearly hanging with a VERY different crowd in Sunnydale, and she really wasn't getting into that much trouble outside of Synder taking a dislike to her.
Joyce wanted Sunnydale to be a fresh start, but it seemed like she was the one that wasn't prepared to actually go with that. Her excessive punishing of Buffy in Bad Eggs for example only makes sense if Joyce was still stuck on that LA mindset of not trusting Buffy and wanting to know exactly where she is at all times, otherwise it shouldn't have been that big a deal that Buffy wasn't in the exact spot of the library during a supposed "gas leak" evacuation