By Leah-Mishkin/NJTV-News/March-20-2018

Seventeen-year-old James Norman is on the honor roll in the Camelot program at Woodrow Wilson High School. He has dreams of becoming a singer one day.

“Two years ago, I lost a friend to gang violence and that hit me, life isn’t a joke. You can be here one day and gone the next,” said Norman.

Before entering the program, Norman was missing class and getting into trouble on the streets. Kareem Ali, the head of the Camelot program at Woodrow Wilson High School, says it took him several home visits to figure out what was really going on.

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