Mentioning highschool experience in interview?

Is it okay to talk about a highschool experience in an interview? In highschool I ended up failing a math course at one point and was wondering if I could use that experience to answer the "name a time you failed" question

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I don’t think it’s bad necessarily, it’s just that your response has to be very strong to justify it.

I personally used experience from when I was in school as a response to “biggest failure” question and interviewer responded well, not because it was during high school but because it was a good answer.

But if the experience isn’t particularly interesting, it’s going to raise questions for the interviewer.

 

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