Sounds reasonable to me. Students who are “out of area” identified; cashless means reduced theft; electronic attendance eliminates human error (kid in restroom or office when teacher takes ADA).
What you fail to understand is that this is just a step on the way to total real-time monitoring of very human, every animal, and pretty much anything that moves.
The techie community is putting together a set of monitoring and surveillance tools that Hitler, Stalin and Mao would have drooled to get.
RFID, mm wave radar, IR imaging and drone technology will very soon have the capability to check where you are, what you are doing, whether you are carrying a weapon, and much else, at any time and anywhere.
It scares the hell out of me, and not for biblical reasons.