In this high-accountability era--one in which there is an expanding movement to condemn teachers for the failures of their schools--teachers teach students who believe writing is primarily an act of complying to a prompt, likely for a state accountability assessment or the troubling 25-minute essay that constitutes less than half of the writing section of the SAT. It is in that context that one should read and listen again to Lou LaBrant. This article revisits LaBrant's "Writing Is More than Structure." The author details the remarkable insight offered in this article. According to LaBrant, the authentic writing program honors the personal elements of being a purposeful writer--choice, audience, "the problem of limitation" of time, and "[f]inally... responsibility for what is said." It is here, LaBrant's emphasis on moral responsibility for writing, that educators must pause to consider that during a time of intense accountability for teachers (who are held accountable for mandates not of their choosing) they must offer students the same dignity they want--accountability for their work must flow from their own choices.